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| | HERBAL ENCYCLOPEDIA: Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | In other words, a particular drug, even though exempt from proofs of safety and efficacy under existing laws, was barred from commerce if any unsubstantiated claim was made as part of the labeling that it was "good" for anything, that is, effective for the treatment of a disease state. |
 | | When it comes to gotu kola (which does not contain any cola), and Fo-ti-tieng, which is not the same as fo-ti, the situation becomes dangerously confusing. |
 | | However, Canada, once considered to be on the international cutting edge of natural products regulation, has become another "average" regulatory environment for herbs with the closing of the Natural Products Section of the Bureau of Drug Research, Health, and Welfare in Canada in 1993. |
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