STRATEGIES
Strategies
Strategies
- Highlight the potential and added value of traditional herbal systems in CAM and regular healthcare systems.
- Giving support and cooperating with action groups devoted to free therapy choice for practitioners and consumers within the EC countries.
- Cooperating with State administrations and FDA’s of exporting countries to monitor the traditional aspect as well as establishing stringent criteria for identity-, quality-, and safety-control.
- Monitoring transparancy and consistency of directives from committees active in food- and drug related legislation.
- Gathering scientific evidence and evaluate methodologies that contribute to the fine-tuning of definitions. In other words: developing criteria to discern between medicine, medicine by function, traditional medicine, novel food, food supplement and food.
- Engaging in more direct contact with relevant EC members and committees and developing contacts with the different committee chairs.
- Engaging in interactive contacts with the EC health department and related national departments.
- Developing additional strategies for interaction with all 26 EC member states and their representatives, as well as with the EC parliament.
- Informing practitioners, institutions, academies,professional associations, importers and distributors, as well as the general public by means of publications, mailings, petitions, organizing conferences and legal interventions.