Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

The MHRA say 'You may either promote Waterfall D-Mannose™ and Xylotene as treatments for adverse medical conditions or sell them, but not both.'

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Is that rational? It's an implementation of a new EEC law that the MHRA have interpreted as meaning that people producing alternative health products are not permitted to tell people how to use those products. Customers will be working in the dark without good advice.

Nevertheless what it boils down to is that we will have to comply,

What can you do? This is where Sweet Cures really find our who our friends are.

Please every customer with any internet ability, start copying info from our website and publicising it, promoting it, and putting it up on your own websites. Use an introductory phrase that makes it clear that it's your website, not ours. Something like "This website is owned by '..name', not by Sweet Cures of York. However, much of the information on this website was copied from the original Sweet Cures website. I just thought I'd make it availabe for people to be able to inform themselves since the new EEC regulations have restricted what Sweet Cures are able to say."

You are allowed to do that. Effectively, you will own the information then, that informs people about Waterfall D-Mannose and/or Xylotene. And in particular, people will need to be able to find out know how to use Waterfall D-Mannose, if we are not allowed to tell them. But do please personalise the site for yourself. Remove our banner, and put up one of yours. Modify our contact details so that it is clear you are pointing people to us rather than us pointing people to us. You could, for example turn it into a 'review' site, where you can add your own comments, perhaps in a different font...

Please point people to www.sweetcures.com, where we will put up a much reduced version of this website.... We, the suppliers, must soon remove most of our helpful advice.

Also, it is worth informing yourself. More info can be found on MHRA by a Google Search.
Basically, they are responsible for implementing UK and EEC laws on health products and medicines.

For the most part, obviously, they do a good job, keeping suspect items off the market, and policing new drugs etc.

However, the latest EEC laws are going to cause huge problems for people producing alternative health products – if you dare to tell people what it’s for, or how to use the product, you are in breach of the law.

What we feel is that an alternative approach should be found, where instead of the MHRA not being interested in the truth or falsehood of any claims made, they do take the evidence in favour (or against) the use of alternative health products into account, and instead of there being no alternative but to have any product with health claims classified as a medicine, (which can cost £millions) there should be a new classification of alternative health products/foods that have a reasonably well proven health benefit, and can then be classified as Alternative Health Products, with a set of claims allowed, which are in line with the evidence for the use of those products.

The evidence, since most producers of alternative health products can never afford clinical trials, should be acceptable if the use of the product is traditional for a problem, (it’s been used for a number of years without problems) and / or there is good anecdotal evidence for its use (perhaps a number of customers sign a form to tell of the effect/s of the product on them.) Evidence could be taken orally or in writing from customers who have used the product.

More info on the fight for fair EEC laws on alternative health products can be found on the Alliance For Natural Health website.

We have many influential customers, so please, use your influence in any way you can to change the law and help create a new class of registered health supplements.

The MHRA enforcement/interpretation of the EEC laws governing this means that the public is missing out on using effective natural products because of lack of guidelines on how to use them – in particular, the MHRA do not allow information on how to use a particular brand of product as against a generic version, taking no account of the fact that branded versions can be very different from the generic products – for example, they can be much stronger. You can’t tell someone specifically how to use Waterfall D-Mannose, which is the only version of mannose we have real long-term experience with.

Also, the regulations governing alternative health products prohibit telling customers what the products are for. We accept that this helps to prevent cowboy claims being made by the unscrupulous, but if a product were registered, for example, with the Alliance for Natural Health, or MHRA, under our proposed guidelines for registration of natural health products, the industry would be as well policed, but the public would greatly benefit by being able to find approved guidelines for the use of their natural products, and companies that produce them would benefit by being able to compete with the pharmaceutical industry on the basis of fair competition. You don't get drugs with no instructions for their use, so why should you be forced to get health supplements with no instructions? It's taking away the public right to know what the things they are buying are for. A lot of people will try to use the wrong products for their problems, and thus make things worse.

Doctors and practitioners would also be able to make up their minds better about the benefits of alternative health products without the information being stifled by the law in favour of the sometimes dubious effects of pharmaceutical products.

Anyway, that’s our case. We are grateful for anything you can do to raise publicity in this area.

Kindest regards,

John and Anna

PS: You could write to your MP and ask him/her to create a private members bill to have the 'sell but not promote' law/interpretation changed, as being unhelpful to trade, and discriminating against health product companies, who basically, according to the law, aren't allowed to tell people what the product they are making can be used for, how to use it, and how to optimise the use of the product.

This action by the European Parliament and MHRA will cost lives. Only by knowing how to properly use our product have many people (including Anna, partner in Sweet Cures) got over antibiotic-resistant infections that could eventually have caused kidney failure.

The MHRA are not interested in the truth - to quote them - 'Our enquiries are not concerned with the truth of any statements that are made..."

We are interested, and that's why we have dedicated the last five + years to the battle against cystitis, UTI's and the side effects of antibiotics. We have made enemies along the road to truth. But we also know we have made a lot of friends.

Did you know you can download the entire website using some free or cheap tools such as the one here:(If you click the link it will download the tool to your computer.) http://www.filedudes.com/Website_Puller-getfile-46094.html

Alternativelty you can download it straight from our cached version HERE.

You can write to Your MP or phone them: (they really should be told the implications of what the UK Interpretation of the EEC law has done, and we know that our customers will not give them an easy ride over this...)

You can contact your MP here: - most also have email

http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm

Thank you for your help.

John & Anna