Love Herbs for health ... ILLEGAL ?????? 
few months ago this article was published, which sucitato has, rightly, many controversies ... quote here the translation, the primary source of the article is bottom of the page, good read and let me know what you think ...
The power of Big Pharma in the EU: from April 1, 2011 will become illegal in EU herbs for health.
The summary and translation that follow, we highlight the severe European decision against freedom of treatment and traditional herbal medicines.
A bad April Fool's 2011: 1st April 2011 virtually all the medicinal herbs become illegal in the European Union.
The pharmaceutical industry and the food have almost completed their assault on all aspects of health: from the foods we eat to the way in which we decide to "cure us" when we are wrong.
No doubt this grab them rob us of what little there was left of health. The European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products (THMPD) was issued March 31, 2004 and made operational rules for the use of herbal products that were previously marketed the free market.
This directive requires that all herbal preparations should go through the same procedures of medicines. It does not matter if an herb was used freely for thousands of years. The costs of these - new - procedures are widely than those faced by most producers - except of course the great food and pharmaceutical industries. To get an idea, it comes to costs varying between 100,000 and € 150,000 for grass, if it is a question of a compound, every plant should be treated separately.
will not matter if an herb has been used safely and effectively for thousands of years should be treated as if it were a new drug laboratory. Of course, the herbs are not drugs laboratory, but preparations made from biological sources that are not necessarily purified - because it might change the nature and effectiveness - just as it does for food.
treat them as synthetic products is distorting the nature and type of medicinal herbs. But this obviously does not make any difference within the walls controlled by European Union BigPharma (the largest pharmaceutical company) that has incorporated the Union of corporatism in its constitution.
Dr. Robert Verkerk of the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH), describes the issue regarding the request type procedures pharmacological herbal preparations:
"Get a herbal medicine from a classic traditional medical culture that is not European, EU through a registration scheme, is like asking to put a cube into a round hole. The regime governing the issue ignores specific traditions and there has not been adjusted. Such an adaptation, however, is urgently required if the directive should not discriminate against non-European cultures, and so consequently violate human rights. "
To better understand what might happen, it should be noted that the system of trade laws has been the focus of operations, to allow monitoring of the food industry and BigPharma on all aspects of food and medicines.
If you are following what is happening in the United States on the fresh milk and to what the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), for which food magically become the medicine when they are simply referred to health effects, you noted that the issue involved was the Federal Trade Commission (FTC = Federal trade Commission).
Rather than covering the food and traditional medicines such as human rights issues have been dealt with as matters of trade. Thus, at the heart of the legislation on foods and herbs, rather than the needs and desires of the people, are over the ambitions and greed of big business.
The purpose of this is to make the world safe for free trade well delel mega industries. The needs and health of the people are absolutely not a factor which take into account.
How to fight against this attack on our health and wellbeing
The deal is not concluded, at least, not yet. If you care to use herbal medicines, or if you care to take vitamins and other supplements, please, act.
The ANH (Alliance for Natural Health, ndt) is active in combating these violations and is currently involved to try to stop the directive THMPD. We hope we succeed, but recent history shows no legal maneuver that can stop these rollers. However we can not afford to just stay seated to await the results of their efforts, they must consider this scenario as part of a whole, in which each of us can play a role.
up to us - each of us - to act. If you live in Europe, please send a letter, a message to your representative in the European Parliament. Go to this page to search for your representative and European contact. Then send a letter that states, without a shadow of a doubt that you claim so strong ANH actions, actions to suspend the entry into force of THMPD you wish you could stand upright and also support people's right to choose herbal treatments.
Primary Source: gay-health.com
