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Also a few years ago there was a massive "grassroots" campaign against one EU regulation called Codex Alimentarius, which the critics called "totalitarian" and argued it leads to a "ban on growing herbs in home gardens".
Of course, it was driven by German manufacturers of some snake oil remedies.
The actual purpose of the regulation was to prevent "remedies" from being labelled as curing X unless a scientific evidence exist that it does indeed cure X.