Some supplements disappear forever!

[Guest guest]

And if they are half as devious as the Europeans, it will be in before you

even know it.

 

Marianne

 

 

> And people said it would never happen... well it did!

> What are we going to do when most of the supplements disappear forever? It

> is already happening! we will not be able to chelate or treat

> deficiencies,

> since the highest vitamin C with a prescription is going to be 180Mg that

> is

> barely enough to keep rickets away.

> The only ones that are going to make money on this LAW is the medical

> community, the heart, cancer and other medical associations, the drug

> companies and the undertaker.

> This is the same thing that they are pushing for the US!

>

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Elaine <MEM121 wrote: -

http://www.healthypages.net/news.asp?newsid=1449 -

 

In need of supplementation

26 April 2002, 10:43

 

Many people think nothing of popping a 500mg tablet of vitamin C to ward off a

cold, but under new European laws many of the vitamin and mineral supplements we

take for granted $B!(Bincluding 500mg vitamin C tablets $B!(Bwill vanish

from shop shelves.

 

The European Directive on Food Supplements, which overrides current UK

legislation, was passed last month under a storm of criticism from groups

representing retailers and consumers. The directive contains a list of vitamin

and mineral sources to be evaluated by the European Union$BCT(B Scientific

Committee for Food (SCF). One part of that evaluation is to decide what

strengths supplements should be restricted to.

 

Critics of the directive fear that not only will some supplements disappear

altogether, but also that dosage limits will be dramatically reduced $B!(Bthat

vitamin C, for example, will come in concentrations no greater than 180mg per

tablet.

 

David Byrne, the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, however,

has welcomed the directive. $BE5(Bhe aim of this legislation is to put

consumer safety and informed consumer choice first, and to solve the problems

manufacturers currently face in marketing their products due to diverging

national rules,$B!(Bhe said.

 

$BE5(Bhus consumers across Europe will have a wide range of safe products

available from which to choose, which is not the case in quite a few member

states today.$B!(B

 

But the Free Choice for Supplements Alliance (FCSA), which represents consumers

and manufacturers, says the list is $BEW(Bery limited$B!(Band excludes more

than 300 substances currently in use in supplements. The FCSA predicts the move

will be disastrous for those involved in the manufacture, distribution and sale

of nutritional supplements in the UK, a market worth $B!W(B376 million last

year.

 

Currently, limits on the strength of vitamin and mineral supplements vary widely

across Europe. UK legislation, like that in the Netherlands and Ireland, is

liberal. It permits the sale of supplements of any strength as long as they are

within proven safety levels.

 

But legislation elsewhere in Europe is relatively restrictive, tying strength to

recommended daily allowance (RDA), which is usually much lower than upper safety

levels. In France, individual supplements can be no stronger than the RDA for

the product, whereas Germany allows three times the RDA.

 

Mike Abrahams, of the National Association of Health Stores, says the SCF is

likely therefore to settle on limits for vitamin C of 60mg, 120mg or 180mg

$B!(Bone, two, or three times the RDA $B!(Bfar short of the 500mg

supplements sold today.

 

There$BCT(B no doubt then that the directive will force a product reshuffle in

the UK, but how will this affect consumers?

 

Sharon Flynn, a nutrition consultant for health retailers Holland & Barrett,

says, $BE5(Bhe list is not complete. [it is] missing several key trace

elements and minerals, in particular boron, silica, vanadium and sulphur, all of

which are used quite extensively either as a single substance or in

combination.$B!(B

 

This will have a detrimental effect on consumer choice, explains Sue Croft, a

spokeswoman for Consumers for Health Choice, an alliance of consumers,

practitioners, retailers and manufacturers. She says that, while the aims of the

directive are sound, $BEX(Be will lose a great many safe products that we have

been using for more than 30 years$B!(B

 

Multivitamin and mineral complexes will be most affected, she says, citing as an

example the osteoporosis formulations that contain boron, which is important to

bone health. $BE " (Bll those will have to be reformulated, and possibly in a

way where the benefits are not as good as they are today,$B!(Bshe says.

 

To have the $BEN(Bissing$B!(Bsupplement sources put on the list,

manufacturers have to produce safety dossiers for evaluation by the SCF.

However, the research required for a dossier is extremely expensive, and many

manufacturers will be unable to afford it.

 

The directive was recently amended to extend the18-month deadline for submitting

safety dossiers to 36 months, starting from March. But this may be cold comfort

for many manufacturers.

 

There is also seven-year period of $BEE(Berogation$B!(Bfrom the date the

directive comes into force, during which vitamins and minerals not on the list

may still be used, but manufacturers will have to start changing their

production regimes long before that time.

 

But it$BCT(B not necessarily a tale of doom. The changes may offer people a

good opportunity to reconsider the role that vitamins play in their diets. As

David Byrne says, $BE " (B varied diet remains the best approach to achieving

good health.$B!(B

 

By Robert Mayes

 

Further information:

A copy of the directive may be found at:

www.foodstandards.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/12394.pdf

 

Free Choice for Supplements Alliance

www.freechoice-supplements.org

 

$B%%(B Health Media Ltd 2002

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

" What are we going to do... "

Fight back! And if, we don't know how to fight back, we can't expect that

things will go our way without a strong effort and response from us, in

stopping this ugly development.

I suggest contacting Dr. Mathias Rath, and asking him and his associates, to

suggest various ways that we can organize and fight Codex. No one in the

world, has a better or closer association with the near-criminal Codex

machine.

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<marianne2406

 

Friday, May 03, 2002 11:59 AM

Re: Some supplements disappear forever!

 

 

> And if they are half as devious as the Europeans, it will be in before you

> even know it.

>

> Marianne

>

>

> > And people said it would never happen... well it did!

> > What are we going to do when most of the supplements disappear forever?

It

> > is already happening! we will not be able to chelate or treat

> > deficiencies,

> > since the highest vitamin C with a prescription is going to be 180Mg

that

> > is

> > barely enough to keep rickets away.

> > The only ones that are going to make money on this LAW is the medical

> > community, the heart, cancer and other medical associations, the drug

> > companies and the undertaker.

> > This is the same thing that they are pushing for the US!

> >

>

>

>

>