Alliance Natural Health

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The people in the USA better start getting the word out to everyone that big

pharma is trying to shut off your vitamins around the world.

 

Everyone better organize to defeat this effort or you can kiss goodbye your's

and your loved one's vitamins.

 

Join something. Send info to all, etc. Do something.

 

Frank

 

 

 

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/

 

Just one of the EU Directives, the Food Supplements Directive will effectively

ban around 5000 products currently available in more advanced EU supplement

markets such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland. This

includes products containing over 300 vitamin or mineral forms disallowed by the

directive, many being food-state nutrients rather than synthetic or inorganic

forms.

 

This process has already begun as the Food Supplements Directive, passed into EU

law in June 2002, is implemented by Member State governments.

 

In a bid to give companies time to comply with the draconian laws, the bans will

not become effective until 1 August 2005.

 

Last year, the Alliance for Natural Health was instrumental in helping to table

a range of key amendments at First Reading to the Pharmaceuticals Directive as

well as the proposed Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, two other

European directives that could potentially drastically affect the availability

of innovative supplements.

 

Now the Alliance for Natural Health, with its rapdily expanding support base

within and outside Europe, is preparing to challenge the Food Supplements

Directive.

 

 

 

Join the Alliance for Natural Health if you would like to be part of our

pan-European and international campaign to ensure that safe, effective and

innovative dietary supplements are maintained on the market.

 

Please make a donation to assist us with all our work including challenging the

EU Food Supplements Directive.

 

We invite you to explore our website and discover why the Alliance for Natural

Health's approach is so important to the future of healthcare, and of vital

concern to consumers, nutritional practitioners, distributors, formulators and

manufacturers of innovative dietary supplements.

 

 

 

Is reformulation to comply with the new EU legislation the best option?

 

Many nutritional supplement companies are now being advised widely that they

should re-formulate their products to comply with the Food Supplements

Directive.

 

Apart from re-formulation, the other options include:

 

Losing products or ingredients

Submission of dossiers

Improvement of dossier regime

Challenging the Directive

 

The Alliance for Natural Health is working tirelessly particularly on this

fourth option - the only option that safeguards innovative nutrients and

complementary healthcare in the long-term.

 

Re-formulation (and full acceptance of the Directive) would leave us only with

low-dose, low-bioavailability, low efficacy vitamin and mineral products, and

will force the loss of a large number of vital nutrient forms, food-state

minerals and trace elements!

 

Commercially, re-formulation would mean that innovative manufacturers and

formulators would pay a hefty price as they would lose their products’ USP

(unique selling point).

 

From a health point of view, the long-term effect of losing both specific

nutrients because it is simply too expensive and difficult to comply with the

requirements, as well as higher dosages (to be disallowed in the near future if

the Directive remains unchallenged), could be catastrophic.

 

Contrary to the unsubstantiated view of the UK's Food Standard Agency, there is

a fast growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating that the nutritional

quality of the average western diet is inadequate and micronutrient deficiency

is widespread.

 

Download the PDF

 

The Alliance for Natural Health is preparing to challenge the Food Supplements

Directive in July 2003, initially in the UK. Download our flyer, print it and

distribute it as widely as you can.

 

 

 

Summary of key ANH achievements July 2003

Word doc, 128kb download here

 

 

 

UK Parliament Briefing Document July 2003

PDF file, 501kb download here

 

 

 

Practitioners' Briefing Note April 2003

PDF file, 60kb download here