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Food Supplements

Dances with Gophers

19:10 / 15.10.03

Another bit of undemocratic legislation being sneaked through from the politicians we cannot vote for. More details here

"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."

No more St John's wort?!....oh well class C drugs it is then!

w1rebaby

20:12 / 15.10.03

The Alliance For Natural Health, as far as I recall, is basically a pressure group organised by current manufacturers of supplements, who get people sending round alarmist emails about how the evil pharmaceutical corporations want everything banned and the EC are their slaves. Note how they say "effectively banned" and don't explain precisely what that means. What it actually means is that they'd have to submit dossiers on those of their products that aren't considered normally present in food, and they don't want to do that because it would cost money.

As far as I'm concerned it's just one group of corporations fighting another one and I don't give a toss for either of them.

You can always grow St John's Wort anyway.

Dances with Gophers

20:20 / 15.10.03

Thanks for that.
Yeah the St John wort tends to grow as a weed round here.

gingerbop

21:47 / 15.10.03

I daily get supplements rammed down my throat (in fact, biggest ever family crisis was caused by my refusing to take them, dad screaming, saying he'd call social services to take me away cause they weren't nourishing me properly, mum in tears [=v rare] nobody speaking, blah blah).
I feel like im only going against them cause im stubborn, but the sooner they're ALL banned (or at least invisible to my family and nobody else) the better.

I'm sure they're overloading me to buggery on half the vitamins in it, and screwing up my liver. That sucks about st johns wort though. If its banned, i'll be off round to see Gophers, should i need it.

w1rebaby

00:56 / 16.10.03

SJW is a Traditional Herbal Medicine rather than a Food Supplement, there's plenty of data available concerning it that can be submitted, and it's very popular as prescribed by doctors in Germany I believe, so it won't be going away.

It might well be standardised legally rather than the self-regulating industry standards that exist at the moment.

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