[2][3][4][5][6] In particular ESCOP’s scientific committee [2] produces reviews of the therapeutic use of leading herbal medicinal products or herbal drug preparations (similar to the prior German Kommission E) based on scientific evidence and on leading expertise across Europe.
[7] The ESCOP monographs serve as an invaluable source of scientific information, for health professionals, academics, researchers, regulators, manufacturers, as well as the pharmaceutical industry, that uses them as an orientation to support application or registration of herbal medicinal products.
Based on the rules of the Community code for medicinal products, for human use, they can be drawn upon and quoted by the Drug Authorities to support an applicant test.
In different professional publications, ESCOP-monographs are mentioned besides WHO-monographs as literature sources and as expert opinions.
In a symposium organised by the „Schweizerische medizinische Gesellschaft für Phytotherapie” (SMGP, CH) in the year 2014, together with the University Hospital of Zürich, the „Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau” (FiBL in Frick CH) and the Phytopharmazie branch of the „Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften“ (ZHAW in Wädenswil CH), ESCOP was active and supportive.