Legislation
The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is set to challenge the validity of the
European directive on food supplements by taking the EU executive to court over
senseless restrictions to consumer availability of natural supplements with a
nutritional value. A top law firm has been retained by ANH to see the legal
challenge through the EU courts and the word is, that it might well work.
The EU has decided to harmonise the internal market in these supplements,
claiming its new regulations are essential for consumer protection. Obviously
the consumer protection issue is a red herring, because no such action is
envisioned to make pharmaceutical medicines safer or to regulate normal foods,
which both cause higher casualties than supplements by orders of magnitude.
ANH is asking for consumers, practitioners and companies who use and provide
leading-edge nutritional supplements to chip in with donations towards this
important legal action. Read what they have to say.
Courts to decide fate of EU supplements directive
