December 18, 2017
The Washington Post and NBC News

On December 18, 2017 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a tougher enforcement policy toward homeopathic medicines, saying it would target products posing the greatest safety risks, including those containing potentially harmful ingredients or being marketed for cancer, heart disease and addiction to opioids and alcohol.

Homeopathy is an old idea that substances that cause diseases can, in very small doses, cure the same symptoms. Modern medicine has disproved this and shown that the homeopathy products are worthless and even harmful. Therefore, the FDA will start to regulate homeopathic products which are high-risk, including ones that are administered by injection, are intended for children or the elderly, or are marketed for serious diseases. This new regulation comes more than a year after homeopathic teething tablets and gels were linked to injuries and deaths in children.

New FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said, “In many cases, people may be placing their trust and money in therapies that may bring little or no benefit in combating serious ailments, or worse — that may cause significant and even irreparable harm” because of poor manufacturing quality or unsafe ingredients, he said. Under its planned approach, many products won't be considered high risk and will remain available to consumers, Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told reporters during a teleconference. But she said, the agency would “go after” products that cause — or might cause — “overt harm.”

The National Center for Homeopathy, which advocates for homeopathy maintains that “homeopathy is a safe, gentle, and natural system of healing that works with your body to relieve symptoms, restore itself, and improve your overall health.”

Steven Salzberg, of Johns Hopkins University said homeopathy product makers are likely to “hit back hard with lots of spurious claims in an effort to confuse consumers and to protect their profits.” He said that homeopathic products' packaging already suggests that the items “cure all sorts of conditions — pain, colds, asthma, indigestion, arthritis, you name it — and yet there's not a whit of evidence” that they cure anything. The homeopathy field, he said, is “just silly from a scientific point of view, more like a religious belief than a scientific belief.”

Last July, Britain's National Health System announced plans to stop doctors from prescribing homeopathic drugs altogether. Simon Stevens, the system's chief executive, described homeopathy as “at best a placebo and a misuse of scarce NHS funds.”

Over the past several years, the FDA has issued warnings about other homeopathic drug products, including zinc-containing intranasal products that may cause a loss of sense of smell; certain homeopathic asthma products that have not been effective in treating asthma and other products that contain strychnine, a poison used to kill rodents.

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