MCA herbal Web site
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
UK Medicines Control Agency launches 1"Herbal safety news" site in late May to provide consumers, practitioners, manufacturers and suppliers with information on safety issues associated with herbal medicines. Online material includes advice on herbal use, safety concerns associated with poor quality of traditional Chinese medicines. Other sections address safety issues for botanicals such as aristolochia, kava, St. John's wort and BotanicLabs' PC-SPES, which was recently recalled due to possible contamination with the Rx drug warfarin (2"The Tan Sheet" May 29, 2002, p. 3)...