WTF?

I was just listening to Bill Sardi talk on lewrockwell's podcast and he was talking about in Europe, you need a prescription for bilberry extract?
Wow, that is truly bizarre. Surely, noone in politics publicly supports a regulation like that.

Well, surely they already did.

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People seem to have very little leverage in the control of their own lives. Codex in Europe https://www.codexalimentarius.org/

This is why North America has been worried. The same thing is happening here.

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Good point. I guess I mean in US politics. Surely no US dem or repub would admit to wanting that type of regulation here. Hopefully. Or at the very least, not be willing to admit it in front of an audience.

Bill Sardi is half right. In most European Countries a herbal can be sold both as a prescription AND and as an over the counter dietary supplement in supermarkets and pharmacies.

If this seems confusing, having both a prescription and a dietary supplement for the same herbal, its similar to the situation in the US over fish oil.

One company in the US has produced a prescription fish oil drug() which has been approved by the FDA after trials proving it lowers triglycerides and is prescribed by doctors(at an outrageous cost). At the same time fish oil is sold in health shops at 10% of the price.

This WHO list shows what individual European countries do with herbals both prescription and over the counter. This is given in the last paragraph of each countries report. In some countries they are allowed to claim that they are effective for individual complaints, something that seems anathema to the FDA in the US.

https://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js7916e/9.4.html

The EU is at the moment trying to rationalise all these different countries attitudes to herbals under Codex and cut down the number of approved herbals and their availability.

In the uk nobody needs a prescription for such things, they just buy them.

Billberry herbal supplement has been on the American market for decades. It would not be affected by the proposed new FDA regulations.

The bilberry is the European cousin of the American blueberry. And just as good for you.
In the war (WW2) RAF crews flying night raids found that their night vision improved after eating bilberry jam.

You never see bilberries in supermarkets here in England, funnily enough. They prefer to import blueberries!

One of those things you can't eat enough of!

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Hi and thanks - yes blueberries are very expensive in uk, a tiny punnet, one portion is about $4.... another reason few buy them...