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The European Commission is planning to restrict maximum dosages (also known as maximum permitted levels or MPLs) of vitamins and minerals in food supplements across the European Union in 2009.  This proposed law is supposedly being driven by concerns about the safety of high dose supplements. The ANH shows how these concerns are unfounded and how over-cautious restrictions, based on use of bad science, could prevent consumers across Europe getting sufficient nutrients by way of supplements to restore or promote their health.  The same approach is in the process of being exported internationally through Codex Alimentarius.

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The base European Directive on food supplements, published in 2002, which came into force EU-wide in 2003

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The European Regulation, published in 2006, which came into force EU-wide on 1 July 2007, controlling nutrition and health claims on foods and food supplements

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European Directive for traditional herbal medicinal products, which came into force on 31 March 2004

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Article in Caduceus magazine (UK) discussing ANH's launch of its sustainable healthcare campaign in Sweden in January 2008

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ANH exposee of the methods used by Professor Edzard Ernst, Peninsular Medical School, Exeter University, to rubbish complementary medicine

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Find out why it's so important to think—and be—natural

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Responding to stinging attack o nutraceutical industry by Dr Mark Ridinger, editor of the scientific journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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Short comment by Dr Robert Verkerk on Guo, Canter and Ernst paper on individualised herbal medicine (Postgrad Med J 2007;83:633–637)

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Find out how nutritional therapists and practitioners will be impacted over the coming years by the totality of legislation on natural health emerging from the Brussels and the EU

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