Supreme Update: Supplements: EU Court Hears Case As UK Commons

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Health Supreme Update: Supplements: EU Court Hears Case As UK

Commons Debate Directive

 

 

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Health Supreme Update: Supplements: EU Court Hears Case As UK Commons

Debate Directive

 

January 26, 2005

 

 

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Luxembourg - The European Court of Justice heard oral arguments

yesterday in a case brought by the Alliance for Natural Health,

the British Health Food Manufacturers Association and the

National Association of Health Food Stores, to overturn the

prohibitive provisions of the European food supplements

directive. The directive, passed in 2002 for the purpose of

harmonizing European laws on health products, is set to require

expensive research to prove the innocence of numerous vitamin

and mineral ingredients in supplements, for products to be

allowed to stay on the market. Many current supplements will

not make the grade and are expected to vanish some time after

August 2005, the date by...

 

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