{"id":64358,"date":"2026-04-08T22:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64358"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:57:51","slug":"the-european-siege-on-botanicals-why-we-must-combat-the-latest-eu-anti-botanical-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64358","title":{"rendered":"The European siege on botanicals: why we must combat the latest EU anti-botanical push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Botanicals_Under_Threat.jpg\" alt=\"Botanicals Under Threat\" width=\"835\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Botanicals_Under_Threat.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Botanicals_Under_Threat-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Botanicals_Under_Threat-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behind closed doors in Brussels, EU regulators are shifting from risk management to risk elimination \u2014 putting dozens of widely used botanicals at risk of restriction based on theoretical hazards rather than real-world science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anhinternational.org\/news\/feature-the-european-siege-on-botanicals-why-we-must-combat-the-latest-eu-anti-botanical-push\/\">https:\/\/anhinternational.org\/news\/feature-the-european-siege-on-botanicals-why-we-must-combat-the-latest-eu-anti-botanical-push\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind closed doors in Brussels, EU regulators are shifting from risk management to risk elimination \u2014 putting dozens of widely used botanicals at risk of restriction based on theoretical hazards rather than real-world science. https:\/\/anhinternational.org\/news\/feature-the-european-siege-on-botanicals-why-we-must-combat-the-latest-eu-anti-botanical-push\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64360,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64358\/revisions\/64360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}