Análise da compatibilidade entre a legislação e a apresentação de um produto à base de plantas medicinais: um estudo de caso.

Abstract

The use of herbal medicine, which means the treatment plants, comes from ancient times and remains a practice widely used in the treatment of various pathologies. Due to the existence of free drug prescriptions, the manufacturers of these often fail to provide important information on their labels. This work aimed to conduct a case study of milk concentrate moreira, a product based on medicinal plants, against compliance with current legislation. This was an exploratory analysis of the product label to identify its most important components with regard to legal aspects and composition. The product has several incompatibilities with the law, among them: lack of registration at ANVISA, omissions of important and mandatory information on the product label, as well as lack of scientific evidence of the plants used for all indications suggested. The lack of information and the uncertainty of his statement are worrying parameters in the marketing of these drugs, for these and other reasons, we must take care that we are using, and buy only medicines with records and reliable industries.