Homeopaths have denounced the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s stance on homeopathy as “ill-conceived, ill-informed and clearly unworkable”.

Last week the RPS said that homeopathy was “clearly not” medicine and should be labelled with warnings there is no scientific evidence for homeopathy.

However, the Faculty of Homeopathy has hit back, stating the RPS statement, which came in response to an MHRA consultation, showed a “disappointing misunderstanding” of evidence.

“Is the RPS seriously suggesting that a product that does not have evidence that satisfies some arbitrary standard of theirs (a standard incidentally, they have no power to set) should be labelled in such a way?” the Faculty of Homeopathy response asks.

The statement is available in full on the Faculty of Homeopathy website.

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