Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Nicholas Winterton (Conservative), on Wednesday, 16 July 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 43 members in total.

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HERBAL REMEDIES

That this House notes that herbal remedies have for centuries made a valuable contribution to healthcare; acknowledges that successive Ministers have hoped that the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive would provide a safe future legal home for such products as older legislative provisions were withdrawn; is alarmed that only 35 applications for registration under the Directive have been received by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, and only 14 registrations granted; fears that many smaller specialist manufacturers are deterred by the prohibitive costs and pharmaceutical testing regimes introduced by the legislation; warns that this risks the loss of thousands of safe and popular herbal remedies when the transitional period expires in 2011; and invites Ministers urgently to intervene to reduce the burdens of regulatory compliance and to persuade the European Union to review the legislation to prevent further damage to the herbal products sector.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2080 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Austin Mitchell

William Cash

John Pugh

Mark Todd

Baroness Hoey

Subjects

Health services Medicine

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk