The supplement and pharmaceutical sectors are ramping up lobbying efforts of new and old Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) – and beyond – to act on the decades-long EU impasse over maximum permitted levels (MPLs) of nutrients in food supplements...
UK Liberal Democrat MP Dr John Pugh wants to know what changes in EU food supplement laws were discussed in a meeting this week between new European health commissioner Tonio Borg, and Jeremy Hunt, the UK Secretary of State for Health.
Polish legal researchers have slammed the 2002 Food Supplements Directive (FSD) for being so vaguely and badly written that it is retarding one of its stated aims – to harmonise and boost trade across the European Union’s 27 member states.
New research has highlighted rising rates of supplement contamination in the European Union – typically by steroids – with the US and China the main sources.
The European Commission needs to let the European supplements industry know how the Food Supplements Directive (FSD) will be enforced across the 27-member bloc, as companies deal with existing stocks that contain now prohibited nutrients, a Czech trade...
Time is of the essence to ensure vitamins and minerals in food supplements across the EU bloc are set at levels that will not decimate national industries and restrict consumer choice, claims a UK supplements lobby group as it kick starts a fresh campaign.
The reality of the recently finalised Food Supplements Directive (FSD) positive list for vitamins and minerals is kicking in, as ingredients suppliers and supplements manufacturers reformulate to meet the Directive’s requirements.
UK-based food supplements lobby group, Consumers for Health Choice (CHC), has launched a kit to help consumers, manufacturer, retailers and practitioners personally envoy their pro high-dose food supplement messages to European Commission president, José...
A Westminster motion is calling on Brussels to extend deadlines for enforcing maximum permitted levels of vitamins and minerals under the provisions of the EU Food Supplements Directive (FSD) and stop it applying to other nutrients such as glucosamine...
The director of the high-dose supplements lobby group and consumer advocate, Consumers for Health Choice, Sue Croft, has been recognised for decades of hard work by being awarded the Natural Products Outstanding Achievement Award.
The European Commission will be reported to the ombudsman for
showing "intransigence" and being unwilling to listen to demands to
keep high amounts for vitamins and minerals when it comes to
setting maximum levels.
Celebrities have added their weight to the Save Our Supplements
campaign which today sent an open letter to UK Prime Minister
Gordon Brown calling for high levels for vitamin supplements to
remain on the market.
A legal opinion gained by the Health Food Manufacturers'
Association has been lauded as a "window of opportunity" for
industry over the EU's proposed rules on maximum mineral and
vitamin levels.
As member states are due to sit down next week to discuss the
setting of maximum mineral and vitamin levels lobbyists have said
there is "everything still to play for."
A new push is being made in the House of Commons to ensure
supplements containing higher doses of nutrients than those set by
the EU Food Supplements Directive remain available on the UK
market.
Vulnerable as they are to media reports, the key to successful
mineral products is in strong R&D and marketing expertise to
take them through from concept to consumer, says Frost &
Sullivan.
US firm Nutrition 21 will seek to boost sales of chromium
piocolinate in Europe, following acceptance of a scientific dossier
in the UK that gives the ingredient up to four years of derogation
from the food supplements directive,...
The campaign against the new EU food supplements directive is
gathering pace as the Alliance for Natural Health announces it will
also take legal proceedings to see the directive declared invalid
under European law.
Trade associations in the UK are taking legal action in an attempt
to hold off the EU food supplements directive, which threatens to
damage one of the biggest and most diverse natural products markets
in Europe.
