Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 64992

Kava: Regulation

Tabled: 4 July 2025
Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UK — Romford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the scientific evidence underpinning the prohibition of kava-kava under the Medicines for Human Use (Kava-kava) (Prohibition) Order

Answer

Karin Smyth
The UK Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 3170 The Medicines for Human use (Kava-kava) (Prohibition) Order 2002 prohibits the sale, supply, and importation of Kava-kava for use in unlicensed medicines in the United Kingdom. The Prohibition Order was reviewed a...
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