European Commission Must Decide If ‘Traditional Use’ Can Break Botanicals Deadlock

Allowing evidence for “traditional use” could break the regulatory deadlock regarding health claims made for botanical food supplements, the European Commission has suggested. This would unlock innovation currently stunted by the “on hold” situation, note researchers Alie de Boer and Karin Lenssen in a paper for the European Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS). However, there are regulatory issues that would need to be resolved for this to work, they point out.