Many menopausal women who are afraid that hormone replacement therapy could increase their risk of breast cancer have turned to the herbalsupplement black cohosh an alternative in recent years.
If throngs of herbal-diet-supplement peddlers want to get together and wax euphoric about their herbal diet supplements, the government could not care less.
The same could not be said, alas, for the unfortunate customers of a Belgian herbal dispensary who bought a supplement that contained the herb Aristolochia fangi.