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Mass lobby - Scottish Parliament - Tuesday 10th November

October 29 2009 at 8:09 PM		Claire 
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in support of Statutory regulation of Medical Herbalists.

More details to follow...

 
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Re: Mass lobby - Scottish Parliament - Tuesday 10th November

December 10 2009, 9:05 AM 

I found this online from the Scotsman newspaper dated 8th Dec...

CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Westminster government to prevent herbal medicines disappearing from the high street when an EU ban comes into place in 2011.
Save Herbal Medicine fears much of its trade will be lost if EU legislation which states that only "statutorily regulated" professionals, such as doctors, would be able to prescribe the alternative remedies is applied. The EU directive will restrict over-the-counter herbal remedies to licensed "traditional" medicines for "mild and self-limiting" conditions.

Save Herbal Medicine wants the Department of Health to produce a statutory register for herbalists who meet certain standards

Source: The Scotsman (http://news.scotsman.com) Location: Edinburgh

 
 
Claire

92.9.55.84

Re: Mass lobby - Scottish Parliament - Tuesday 10th November

December 10 2009, 2:25 PM 

Good to see the Scotsman keeping the story alive.

Here's a link to the article they ran after the Parliamentary Lobby

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/health/Herbalists-call-for-legal-remedy.5812415.jp

There is also a reception planned at Holyrood on 24th Feb to inform MSPs of the issues. This will hopefully coincide with a decision from the DoH because even a positive outcome requires us to keep up the pressure. It apparently takes up to 2 years for the regulatory process to complete. A late Feb decision gives us 13 months...

 
 
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