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Article: Health food industry challenges EU Food Supplements Directive.(Food)
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- February 16, 2004
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A contentious European Union directive on food supplements is to face a legal challenge by the health food industry, which claims that it will jeopardise consumers' freedom to choose how to look after their health. The Food Supplements Directive (FSD) came into European law in July 2002 and will effectively bring about a ban on the use of 300 vitamins and minerals currently included in some 5000 food supplements available on the UK market,
Among some of the natural ingredients excluded from the FSD's so-called 'positive list' of permitted vitamin and mineral forms are vanadium, boron, silica and up to 50 trace elements. Controversially however, the ban will not ...