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Petition update, 04 December 2009

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New EU regulations require all those who practice herbal medicine to be authorised persons and therefore state regulated practitioners from 2011.

The Department of Health consultation on implementing the Pitillo report is considering the rejection of state regulation of herbal practitioners.

This move is 'entirely contrary to what the steering group had been set up for' according to Professor Michael Pitillo who led the working group feeding into the consultation.

Outlawing herbal medicine will have serious adverse effects on the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who use herbal medicine in the UK. It will put practising herbalists out of work. It will render degree qualifications in herbal medicine worthless.

The consultation ends on November 2nd.

We, the undersigned, demand that the Prime Minister intercedes on our behalf to ensure properly trained and qualified practitioners are allowed to become "authorised persons" and continue the delivery of herbal medicine.

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