Energy Medicine

MODALITY: ENERGY MEDICINE APPROACHES

Legislative Risks

Energy Medicine 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 document THMPD

Human Medicinal Products Directive
    ANH summary

Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation
    ANH summary
    ANH briefing document NHCR

Medical Devices Directive
    European Commission summary
    ANH summary

Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
    European Commission summary
    ANH summary:

Under this new directive, a complainant may claim that the healer or therapist acted fraudulently, and the burden of proof will be shifted so that the healer or therapist will have to show that they did not intend to mislead the consumer.

Scientific Risks

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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.

Click here to read ANH’s rebuttal.

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Professional Bodies / Useful Organisations/ further information

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