Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Group pushes for new laws to promote medicinal plants, not pharmaceuticals

Representatives, academics and experts join together in creating a national law to boost the market of medicinal plants and natural products in Mexico, in order to give them good operation and avoid pressure by pharmaceutical companies.

The First National Forum in the Legislative Palace of San Lazaro is working towards building a comprehensive public policy for sustainable use medicinal plants and natural products in Mexico.

The director of the Autonomous University of Chapingo (UACh), Jose Barrales Dominguez, lamented that large pharmaceutical companies promote the restriction of medicinal plants and the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) also . . .

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