South African Minister: No Restrictive Controls For Natural Medicines

Like much of the rest of the world (Canada) (U.S.A.) (ANZO) (Europe) South Africa has a legislative proposal, inspired by pharmaceutical interests, to "ensure the safety of natural remedies" including herbs and nutritional supplements, proposing to subject them to the extensive testing routines normally applied only to allopathic - pharmaceutically produced - medicines. In what may be a harbinger of international reversal of position, South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said at a recent international conference on natural products and molecular therapy at the University of Cape Town Medical School, that the proposal "is likely to be changed." Mrs. Tshabalala-Msimang urged delegates to expose "the false dichotomy that had arisen...
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