Supplements Directive Lacks Transparency - Advocate General's Opinion

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Health Supreme Update: Supplements Directive Lacks

Transparency - Advocate General's Opinion

 

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Health Supreme Update: Supplements Directive Lacks Transparency -

Advocate General's Opinion

 

April 05, 2005

 

 

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5 April 2005 - In a case brought by the Alliance for Natural

Health (ANH)) and others in the UK, challenging the European

Supplement Directive's restrictive provisions, especially the

limitation of allowed ingredients to a short list of mostly

synthetic sources of vitamins and minerals, Advocate General

Leendert Geelhoed has filed his opinion, coming to the

following conclusion: " Examination of the provisions of

Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States

relating to food supplements has disclosed that the Directive

infringes the principle of proportionality, because basic

principles of Community law, such as the requirements of legal

protection,...

 

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