2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Natural remedies should be declared as medicinal medicines. This is one of the requirements that Bulgaria has adopted together with a signed directive of the European Union in 2004. The document enters into force on May 1 this year.
If the solutions are implemented in practice, the properties of medicinal plants will have to be tested for years. During this time there will be no herbs on the Bulgarian market. And the legalization of herbs as medicines takes about 3 years, more than 45 quality documents and costs about BGN 200,000 - time and amounts unaffordable for Bulgarian herbalists.
These procedures are likely to cause some valuable plants to disappear from the market. If herbalists manage to meet all EU administrative requirements, the final price that the consumer will have to pay will increase many times over. This will block the spread of medicinal plants.
Pharmacist Yonka Dimitrova said on bTV that many of her clients panicked after learning the news about the European directive. As a result, Bulgarians are currently recharging en masse with herbs.
At the same time, statements from the Ministry of Health make it clear that for now it is not necessary to register the herbs with the Executive Agency for Medicines. According to experts from the State Department, the European directive applied only to medicinal products of entirely herbal origin.
However, statistics show that since the directive came into force in other EU member states, herbalists have managed to legalize only 200 medicinal plants. As many as 17 countries at the same time have not successfully registered a single herb over a period of 10 years.
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