Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products
The Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (Engl. Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products , shortly HPMC ) is a specialized body of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the science-based monographs for herbal medicines created.
tasks
The committee was founded in September 2004 on the basis of the directive for the registration of traditional herbal medicinal products (THMPD) and a resolution of the European Parliament . 30 members with one deputy each are nominated by the 27 EU countries plus Norway and Iceland, and up to five more members can be appointed based on their expertise in selected specialist areas.
The task of the committee is to harmonize the legal and scientific aspects of herbal medicinal products at European level. On the part of the national professional societies there is the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) at the same level , which also creates monographs.
By June 2020, the HMPC had completed 155 monographs, more are in progress. These are freely available on the EMA homepage.
In August 2015, the EMA announced that it would also write future HMPC monographs in a language that can be understood by laymen and offer them in all official EU languages.
Web links
- Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) , European Medicines Agency (EMA)
- Search mask for HMPC monographs , European Medicines Agency (EMA)
- Robert Fürst , Ilse Zündorf: HMPC Monographs: Evidence or Tradition. , Pharmaceutical Newspaper , August 29, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) on the EMA website.
- ↑ Herbal medicines for human use on the EMA website.
- ↑ Julia Borsch: Phyto recommendations will also be understandable for laypeople in the future. In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung , August 5, 2015.