The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7188 p343
9 March 2002

Society summary

Society represented on herbal regulation working group

Professor Bill Dawson has been appointed to represent the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on a Department of Health working group on the regulation of herbal practitioners.

The working group is charged with producing a report setting out options for achieving successful self-regulation of the herbal practitioners' profession. The group will make recommendations as part of a wider Government consultation leading to legislation. This consultation will also result in recommendations for the regulation of herbal medicines under the Medicines Act 1968.

Professor Dawson is a member and past chairman of the Society's Science Committee and also chairs the Society's working group on complementary medicine. He is a former member of the Society's Council.

The working group includes lay members and representatives of herbal practitioners' interests. The group is to meet monthly during 2002.