article_snippet.sent: British and Norwegian vets have called the directives 'scientifically illiterate', saying that the use of homeopathy could lead to 'serious animal health and welfare detriment.'
article_snippet.sent: Danger: British and Norwegian vets have called the EU directives on organic fish treatment 'scientifically illiterate', saying that the use of homeopathy could lead to 'serious animal health and welfare detriment'
article_snippet.sent: 'We think it's totally unacceptable from a scientific point of view because there's no scientific basis for using homeopathy,' Ellef Blakstad, the head of the Norwegian Veterinary Association, told The Local.no. '
article_snippet.sent: If you start using homeopathy, you prolong the time when the animals are not getting adequate treatment and that's a threat to animal welfare.'
article_snippet.sent: The criticism from Norway has been echoed by the Norwegian Veterinary Association, saying use of homeopathy could lead to 'serious animal health and welfare detriment.'
article_snippet.sent: the Norwegian Veterinary Association cannot endorse the use of homeopathic remedies, or indeed any products, making therapeutic claims, which have no proven efficacy,' the Norwegian Veterinary Association President John Blackwell told MailOnline. '
article_snippet.sent: If homeopathic remedies are used without proven effectiveness on farmed fish across the EU, including the UK, the consequence could be serious animal health and welfare detriment, which would be counterproductive to both animal health and to the farmed fish industry in the UK.'
article_snippet.sent: Homepathic treatments are based on the principle that 'like cures like', whereby a highly diluted substance that causes the symptoms  in a healthy person, can also cure similar symptoms in a sick person.
article_snippet.sent: A 2010 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on homeopathy said that homeopathic remedies perform no better than placebos, and that the principles on which homeopathy is based are 'scientifically implausible'.
highlights_snippet.sent: British vets say use of homeopathy could lead to serious health detriment .