The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) was founded in 2002 and is a UK-based, internationally-active, non-governmental organization, working to help positively shape the regulatory and scientific framework affecting natural health.

As an alliance, the ANH brings together, globally, scientists, medical doctors, integrative practitioners, lawyers and consumers, as well as suppliers of food supplements and other health foods, as a means of working towards the development of sustainable approaches to healthcare.

We are working on your behalf to stop bans on safe and effective natural products used by millions in healthcare. In a world where pharmaceutical drugs, complete with a raft of side effects, are increasingly seen by healthcare authorities and the orthodox medical community as the central plank in healthcare, many consumers around the world are choosing different ways to maintain and promote health.

Natural products, be they herbs from long-standing eastern traditions or sophisticated food supplements and functional foods, continue to help millions of people to restore balance in their bodies, so that self-healing processes are triggered and good health is resumed. But therapeutic natural products are now deeply under threat, nationally and internationally, as increasingly stringent regulatory requirements are being ushered in by pharmaceutically-biased regulators, supported by a clutch of transnational corporations in the pharmaceutical and food sectors.

The ANH believes that every person has a right to use nature to help maintain or regain health, and it is an infringement of our civil liberties to prevent this. We also argue that good science and good law are the vital tools needed to help re-access this right, given that these processes work with rather than against nature. Good science and good law is what ANH does daily on your behalf, working locally, nationally and internationally.

The campaign is headed by Dr Robert Verkerk, a world-renowned scientist who has worked tirelessly on health, agricultural and environmental issues both in academia and as a campaigner.

The ANH campaign commenced in February 2002, to pull together disparate groups of consumers, practitioners, doctors, scientists, lawyers and leading-edge companies who saw the immense risks posed by regulatory threats in Europe and internationally . The totality of these measures are capable of legislating safe, effective and innovative food supplements and natural therapies out of existence. They may in the future also drastically restrict the practice of traditional medicinal cultures, some of which are thousands of years old.

We are very focused, with a clear remit: to protect natural healthcare using an approach that is rational and underpinned by good science and good law.

Key achievements to date include:

• Raised public awareness of the significance of legislative threats to the long-term sustainability of natural healthcare
• Made significant amendments to EU legislation through collaboration with Members of the European Parliament
• Brought the landmark legal challenge to the EU Food Supplements Directive in the High Court London and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2004-5).
• Promoted rational science as the basis on which safety of nutrients should be assessed at a global level through the Codex Alimentarius Commission
• Deconstructed flawed approaches to risk assessment and management which are being used by regulators in an attempt to ban higher, beneficial dosages of natural products
• Created a united front of common interests across Europe, the USA and many other countries

We welcome you to our website. Please explore the many areas accessible via hyperlinks via this homepage, inlcuding our informative news archive. And most importantly - please support the Alliance for Natural Health in whichever way you can. We are solely donation funded, so all donations are very greatly appreciated.

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