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Article: Campaign against supplements directive list "counter-productive".(Drain Cleaner and Quicklime Poisons Approved for Food Supplements as Safe Vitamins are Banned)
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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In early-December last year, the Consumers for Health Choice issued a press release in the UK with the title Drain Cleaner and Quicklime Poisons Approved for Food Supplements as Safe Vitamins are Banned.
Accompanying this press release was a two-page paper from a Dr Lister of Phylax Ltd, with brief references to the toxicity of these substances when ingested in large quantities. The press release was widely circulated to Parliamentarians in the UK and Brussels and resulted in questions being raised in the British parliament.
Written in what can only be described as an hysterical tone, the release refers to "ludicrously flawed" legislation allowing ...