Traditional Herbal Registrations

Traditional herbal registrations Following on from my previous blog introducing herbal medicinal products (which you can find here), this blog is going to look deeper into the traditional herbal registration (THR) pathway and how it can be used.   What is the traditional herbal registration pathway? In 2004 the EU and UK introduced a simplified […]

Regulating Herbal Medicines in the UK and EU

Regulating herbal medicines in the UK and EU   What is a herbal medicine? Herbal medicinal products are those which contain exclusively herbal substances or herbal preparations (or a combination of the two) as active ingredients. The European directive 2001/83/EC describes a herbal substance as ‘whole, fragmented or cut plants, plant parts, algae, fungi, lichen […]