Botanicals under threat
Large swathes of the dietary supplements market will be killed off unless regulators agree to consider traditional knowledge when assessing health claims for botanicals under the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation, the European Botanical Forum has warned.
EBF secretary Patrick Coppens said: "We are not saying that suppliers shouldn't have to prove that their ingredients work, simply that they should get fair treatment. In the field of traditional herbal medicinal products the value of observational evidence and experience is given substantial weight when assessing efficacy of medicinal effects under medicinal law."
It would be "totally disproportionate" if requirements for proving the efficacy of a health claim were more demanding than they were for proving a medicinal therapeutic effect, he said.
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