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Licensing of over the counter herbal medicinal products
Regulation of herbalists in the UK
The view from The College of Medicine
The difference between herbal medicine and homeopathy
Statutory Regulation for Herbalists!
The Health Secretary announced to Parliament that herbal medicine practitioners will be regulated from April 2012. The four UK health departments have agreed that the Health Professions Council (HPC) should hold a statutory register of practitioners who supply unlicensed herbal medicines to people to enable the supply of herbal medicines to continue after 30 April 2011. This will ensure that practitioners have met specified registration standards. Practitioner regulation will be underpinned by medicines legislation which will provide further safeguards to protect public health.