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Protect Traditional Medicinal Cultures
Are you prepared to sit by while regulators attempt to legislate out of existence non-European healthcare traditions that are thousands of years old?
Bodywork and Manipulative Approaches
MODALITY: BODYWORK AND MANIPULATIVE APPROACHES
e.g. Aromatherapy, Body Stress Release, Bowen Therapy, Chiropractic, Cranial Osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy, Kinesiology, Massage Approaches, Osteopathy, Shiatsu…
Legislative Risks
Bodywork and manipulative approaches to natural healthcare are in the process of being affected by the following EU law.
Click on the links below to read about how this legislation may affect you:
Food Supplements Directive
ANH summary
ANH briefing paper FSD / General
ANH briefing paper FSD / MPLs
ANH position paper on MPLs (Oct 2007): "MPLs Not Fit for Purpose"
ANH article (Jan 2008) "Why should we be concerned about MPLs?"
Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive
ANH summary
ANH briefing paper THMPD
Human Medicinal Products Directive
ANH summary
Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation
ANH summary
ANH briefing paper NHCR
Medical Devices Directive
European Commission summary
ANH summary
Scientific Risks
This section under construction
Media Risks
Recent negative publicity that may affect your business includes:
Daily Mail headline 16/04/08: ''Can vitamins do you harm?'' Supplements may even shorten your life, claim scientists’’. This came from a review published by Cochrane Collaboration.
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Professional Bodies / Useful Organisations/ further information
There follows only some British Associations. We apologise for the incompleteness of this list.
Aromatherapy and Allied Practitioners Association
The Body Stress Release Association (UK)
The British Chiropractic Association
The Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK
The British Osteopathic Association
The General Osteopathic Council
Association of Systematic Kinesiology Membership
