This is in Europe, but please SIGN IT!! The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive will kill the right of us, citizens, to have ACCESS to almost all thousands of herbs that are used for centuries or thousands of years!!!
Each herb will need to go through the extensive process of testing that the pharma industry use, that means that to prove that fennel helps calming babies, someone will have to invest about 200,000 US dollars for it.
Each herb will need a minimum of 150,000 USdollars or it will be considered illegal to use it for consumption.
Stevia is already a product that is FORBIDDEN for sale. It can save millions of lives, people with diabetis can take it without the dangers of aspartame or other sweeteners. But all over Europe, it is forbidden, shop keepers can lose their business if they find out people take stevia as a tea!!!
Don't let them win!! Herbs saved my life more than once, without them, I wouldn't be HERE WRITING THIS!!! They saved my child too, who was just 2 years old of serious brain damage due lyme encephalitis.
Help us preserve our rights to buy and sell such products. It will come a time when all homeopathic products will go on the list of forbidden products as they are ALREADY going NON STOP in Europe.
Just see my post on detox: most of the things I list will not be available anymore for us to buy. I wrote as suggestion my favorite detox products and these will become forbidden: CHLORELLA, CARDAMON, BEAR GARLIC TINCTURE, RECHTS REGULAT, BITTER HERBS FOR TEAS, CILANTRO, GARLIC, TURMERIC, SEA WEED PRODUCTS etc.
Peppermint and fennel, two plants that have been used for centuries, will become forbidden to be cited as helping any health condition!
Big Pharma wants to take all the profits for them. Without option, we only will have chemicals to try. Herbs are with us before humans appeared, much before. Please, sign fast, we have only until April 30
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/39757.html ----------------------------- The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) is presented as a service to European citizens and as simple to apply. However, close examination of its methods in practice demonstrates that the reality will be an egregious abridgement of the rights of individuals to obtain and use the health treatments they choose.
While it benefits citizens for governmental agencies to advise on efficacy and safety of products that have been commonly and freely used by utilising a particular method of inquiry, that information may not address the needs of individuals and presumes that there is only one system for obtaining accurate and beneficial information. That is equivalent to allowing only one religion as the accepted source of truth.
The costs and systems required by THMPD are generally not manageable by small manufacturers, which are the predominant suppliers of herbal products. This results in an unfair competitive advantage to multinational corporations, which ultimately limits the individual's access to quality and selection in herbal medicinal products.
With THMPD, the European Union has overstepped and is severely restricting the unwritten rights of each human being to choose and access methods of managing health. It is a dangerous usurpation of civil rights that assumes the individual does not have the ability to make proper health decisions. Self-determination in matters of health must be treated as an inherent civil right, and THMPD is an abrogation of it.
Read this to see the sort of madness that the EU Commission is already enacting--and that you may help stop by signing this petition.
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Here's a comment from a friend of mine in Germany:
"...the petition we were supposed to sign... ... Needless to say, we didn't sign it. The reasons for protest given were completely erroneous. Gundel took the trouble to look up the ordinance in the net and found out what it is really about. It is absolutely false to claim that if you grow peppermint and sell it you are committing a crime - what a bunch of hogwash! What the THMPD does say is that a doctor cannot prescribe herbal medicines unless they have gone through the EU checks and validated themselves. That does not mean you cannot buy the products - only that they cannot be officially sold as medicine. However, anyone who wants to can gain access to them and use them as they see fit.
Small manufacturers will have problems meeting the costs required to pass the examinations, but there is information in the net to help them.
We also wish to point out to the protesters that the law has been in effect in Germany and many other countries since 2004 and if the problem seems so acute to them they should have gotten their movement started many years ago when there might have been a small chance of success. The date they give, April 30, 2011 is the absolutely final deadline when the law must be in effect in all EU countries. In most it has been long since passed.
Last not least, we are extremely curious as to why such a fuss is being made in the USA about a directive that is only valid in the EU and has absolutely no application for herbalists anywhere else. We got the strong impression that the authors of the protest were mainly anti-EU rather than anti-THMPD. While there is much to be criticized about EU bureaucracy and we are not by any means in agreement with all measures, we feel that the FDA would be a more appropriate target for their campaigns." ----------------------- --------------------- I personally don't know, i didn't research it.
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