Herbal medicines will survive after ministers approve plan that bypasses EU directive

Jenny Hope
Daily Mail

Herbal and Chinese medicines that faced an EU ban are to stay on sale under plans to register UK practitioners for the first time.

The Government moved yesterday to protect consumers wanting herbal products that will disappear from many health food shops after April 30.

Mr Lansley has approved a plan for the Health Professions Council  to establish a register of practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines, who will be required to sign up by law.

But from May 1 consumers will be unable personally to buy many traditional herbal products under an EU directive passed in 2004, taking effect this year. Only those which have been licensed in a process costing £80,000 to £120,000 will remain on sale.

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