(12-03-2011, 10:45 PM)Chrissiegirl Wrote: Does anyone know what effect, the new, UK, regulations, on herbal products, will have on PM? Am I going to have to buy several years worth, or be dependant on the medics, for stuff, derived from horse piss, with all the hoop jumping, that involves?
Chrissie, I'm no expert by any means, but I do have some experience in trying to make sense of Government regulations in another field. These regs have been around in fact since 2005, being based in yet another EC Directive from 2004 and the latest version comes into effect from this year. As far as I can tell, they seem to apply to High Street retailers, wholesalers and importers and apart from a list of banned potentially dangerous items such as Digitalis and poppies, which can only be supplied via pharmacies, etc, these regs only require registration of the product. It actually says
"Manufactured herbal medicines placed on the UK market are required to have either a Traditional Herbal Registration (THR) or a Marketing Authorisation (MA). This applies whether the product is marketed to consumers, herbal practitioners, retailers, or wholesalers."
There is no mention that I can find of how it applies to an individual buying directly from a foreign country for personal use, as opposed to in a trade or business sense, so hopefully getting it direct from Thailand in small quantities for personal use will be OK. However, I guess that PM-UK et al will need to apply to have their products registered and technically until they do, they ( and hence you) could have a problem.
Don't know if this helps, but I'd suggest contacting your normal supplier and asking them if they have registered and suggesting that if not, they ought to do so PDQ!!