EU VITAMIN BAN: The fight goes on
Concerning the latest Medicines Control Agency bulldozer (WDDTY vol 13 no 2), I’ve recently spoken to Robert Joy, BioCare’s marketing director, who is very disheartened by the seeming inevitability of loss of choice for us the consumer.
The latest wrinkle in the ongoing debate on genetic engineering concerns the ability of biotech companies to censor potentially damaging information about their products. ...
Re the EU legislation on vitamin/mineral supplementation (VMS), it seems to me that this encroaches on human rights and, as such, could be sued for in the European Court of Human Rights.
SUPPLEMENTS: Are any of them safe, ask the Americans
If you've been reading these pages, you've heard me ranting on about MLX 249, the proposed amendment to give the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) a broad new range of powers over herbs and vitamins. ...
The EU directives and the Codex proposals amount to a major infringement of human rights. If Brussels and the pharmaceutical industry are allowed to dictate the levels of vitamins you are allowed ...
Hard on the heels of the European Directive on Vitamin Supplements comes the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, which would amount to a ban of all but the most well-used herbs.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, it seems to me that we face a deliberate and concerted effort by the pharmaceutical industry all over the world to crush alternative medicine. ...
FLUORIDE: It's in our toothpaste and, from June, it could be in our w