My presentation :)

Hi! Last Monday I talked about the plant-based products marketed in Chile, and how they are regulated. I told you that all of them have an active ingredient, but some of them are overseen by the ISP (Public Health Institute of Chile) and the rest of them by the Health SEREMI (Health Ministerial Regional Secretariat of Chile). The products controlled by the ISP are guaranteed that they have all they tests approved (clinical, physical, chemical, etc), and that they contains a certain amount of an active ingredient, which must be well defined (with the complete formula and monograph). The products regulated by the SEREMI, just must have the sanitary conditions to be approve.

The ones that are regulated by the ISP are the phytodrugs, drugs and cosmetic Products; By the SEREMI are the traditional herbal medicines, herbs and spices (seasonings), food supplements and foods for athletes.

I chose this topic, because I want you to know how works the system here, related to plant-based products, which I think is a problem here. I mentioned in class that in USA all this products are regulated by de FDA (Food and Drug Administration), which is like the ISP. We should have scientific studies, for information on its activity and toxicity, of all plant drugs.

 I think I could organized a little better the presentation, but in general it was OK; I could express myself better.

I think it is interesting to you to know this because when you want to buy some product, you will know if it will really work for you. 

See you!