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There is a common delusion among general public that natural equals safe. Although acquired from different sources, natural products can still have a damaging effect on human organism. The problem is we only notice the natural compounds that have a strong and immediate effect, for example, Castor-bean plants and snake venom, but we forget that there are natural compounds which could have less noticeable and less aggressive side effects. That is usually the case with the natural substances that have some sort of pharmacological activity and are used for the preparation of natural products.

The other problem is the lack of relevant information from scientific studies for most of natural products. There are so many of these products on the market that it is not even possible to test all of them, although there are several companies dealing seriously with that issue.

When it comes to the flaws in manufacturing process, Food and Drug Agency (FDA) has recently announced that some of the products on the market advertised as natural actually contained the traces of some dangerous drugs. Those hidden drugs, although in small amounts, are much more dangerous than pharmaceutical formulations, because they could be taken by persons with contraindications to the specific drug. There are currently no regulations for restricted use of natural products, so the manufacturers sell them as natural remedies and add them to groceries.

More regulations should be established in order to prevent the harmful effects of natural remedies, and extensive testing should be conducted in order to investigate their safety and efficacy. There should also be more efforts to educate general public about the current uncertainty of natural products safety.