Mis-leading and Misinformation
18. (1) The label of a herbal medicine or related product with antipyretic and analgesic property shall not bear
the indication "for fever" but shall be labelled "for feverish conditions" or "feverish feeling".
(2) No person shall sell, advertise, display any herbal medicine or related product with a name suggestive of the
symptom, disorders, diseases or abnormal states that it is supposed to treat, prevent or cure e.g. "?. Backache
Tablets".
Interpretation
19. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires –
"Agency" means the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control;
"Botanical name" means the scientific name by which plant is identified;
"Common name" means, with reference to herbal medicine or related product, the name in English language or
other such language by which the product is commonly known;
"Expiration date" means any date after which a herbal medicine or related product is not recommended for use;
"Herbal Medicines and Related Products"
include:
(a) Finished medicinal products containing plant and/or their preparation presented with therapeutic or
prophylactic claim and include all preparations containing a plant material in part or wholly;
(b) Animal medicinal product which shall be defined as a finished medicinal product containing only
animal material and their preparations presented with therapeutic or prophylactic claim;
(c) Mineral medicinal product which shall be defined as finished medicinal product containing only inorganic minerals and/or their preparations;
(d) Preparation or admixture thereof manufactured, sold or advertised for use in the diagnosis, treatment,
mitigation or prevention of any disease, disorder, abnormal physical state or the symptom thereof, in man or
animal; and
(e) Preparation or admixture used for restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in man or in
animal;
"Label" includes any legend, word or mark attached to, included in, belonging to or accompanying any herbal
medicine or related product;
"Package" includes anything in which any herbal medicine or related product is wholly or partly contained,
placed or packed;
"Practitioners" means any person authorized by the appropriate governmental body to practice herbal medicine;
and
"Sell" includes sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale.
Citation 20
These regulations may be cited as the Herbal Medicines and Related Products (Labelling) Regulations 2005.