The European ban on kava is at its end.
After six years, an agreement between south Pacific ambassadors and representatives and European delegates to lift the ban on kava. This long overdue move reopens the south Pacific kava market to European buyers. While always legal in the US, the kava market sharply declined in 2002, as Germany imposed a ban on kava products. Many other European nations followed suit.
 At the time of the kava kava ban, kava, as an argricultural commodity, helped boost the economies of several south Pacific nations. Since then, the competition has been fierce and a regular supply of high quality kava, is difficult to locate.
With kava banned in Europe, there has been a hit to the economy in the south pacific. As Europe lifts its ban on kava, important markets will have the opportunity to grow and provide these south Pacific nations a highly sought after raw material. Germany was the first to discover kava's medicinal potential. Pharmacutical grade kava (highly concentrated kavalactones) were produced by French and German pharmacutical companies.
Is Kava Safe?
With kava kava banned, people who have been using the supplement for many years ask this question: is kava kava safe? Due to many studies and analyses of kava effects, the European representives along with south Pacific delegates have concluded that kava is safe for the market. According the Fiji and Australian news outlets, some time may still pass before the kava market for the production of pharmacutical grade kava is open and regulations are set in place.
This move is a very hopeful sign for south Pacific nations who are struggling to secure sustainable commodities to the global market. The success of kava re-emergence may also spill over to other natural and herbal remedies, as they gain greater acceptance as a form of medicine.
As the formalities of the kava ban lift, we, kava drinkers raise a shell of kava and drink to your health as well as ours.
BULA!
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