From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sat Jul 15 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news3.digex.net!access4.digex.net!rschifre From: Richard Schifreen Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Re: FDA approval for treatment Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 14:05:28 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <199507161432.WAA24999@einstein.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199507161432.WAA24999@einstein.technet.sg> Any treatment offered for sale in the United States must get FDA approval. I can't speak to the regulations in Canada. Not all products need to be completely defined, but they will certainly ask how you insure that each and every lot is safe and effective. Rich Schifreen On 16 Jul 1995, Lim Pohyam wrote: > From the discussions generated from Jay's PCR note, I wonder if a treatment > regime for alcoholics should get FDA approval to be sold in the US or > Canada? We have been approach to try FDA approval for a Chinese herbal cure > for alcoholism. My main concern is that some herbal components may not be > defined in specific terms. Could anyone tell me? > > > .