EU's directive to outlaw up to 5,000 vitamins

**Maggy J** · 30-06-2005, 23:55

Here we go with EU directives again..http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...icle295756.ece

I must remember to get a large supply of evening primrose,valarian tea and feverfew tablets before the 1st of August.

Lew · 01-07-2005, 15:40

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**Maggy J** · 01-07-2005, 16:17

Then look at this one

http://www.nowfoods.com/?action=item...&item_id=43274

or this third paragraph down

http://www.kc3.co.uk/~dt/medical.htm

and it appears that groups interested in oppsing this have won the right to take their case to the European Court of Justice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3445503.stm

marky · 01-07-2005, 16:27

is it the actual vitamins or the nasty azo colours and sodium benzoates ect that are in the pills surley a bright orange pill cant be natural.
my son has adhd and a lot of these addatives send him up the wall.
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Angua · 01-07-2005, 16:27

Perhaps I am being overly cynical but this has always seemed like someone is trying to justify their job or create another revenue stream.

**Maggy J** · 01-07-2005, 16:50

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Originally Posted by markymoan

is it the actual vitamins or the nasty azo colours and sodium benzoates ect that are in the pills surley a bright orange pill cant be natural.
my son has adhd and a lot of these addatives send him up the wall

Yes but not all vitamins have these colourings in...you only have to ask for those that have no additives.They are available in good reputable health food shops.I buy stuff like valerian tea to help me cope with my migraines otherwise I'm going to be going to the doctor getting stronger and stronger painkillers that cost more and more because one gets habituated to the drugs and they fail to work after a while.I try to do with just basic paracetmol and herb teas to survive..If this happens I won't be able to use a product that has been used since the middle ages to help induce natural sleep.

I personally would like to be given the benifit of the doubt and be allowed to exercise my own judgement in this matter.All the vitamins and supplements available do have the ingredients clearly labelled on them especiallly if you go to a reputable health food shop and buy products produced by reputable names.Holland and Barrett have NO intentions of killing their customers after all...they want them to come back and continue to buy their products.

Also consider this,in whose REAL interest is this directive.Yours?Mine? I doubt it and I suspect that the larger pharmaceuticals will be the winners if this directive goes ahead.They will be the only ones who can afford to prove and test products that DON'T need testing because they have been in use by our forefathers for hundreds of years.Also simple ordinary vitamins tablets will shoot through the roof in price if this happens.

Herbalists are carrying on a tradition that has lasted since the middle ages-why should they have their livihoods affected because of brussels bureaucracy?

marky · 01-07-2005, 17:02

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Yes but not all vitamins have these colourings in...you only have to ask for those that have no additives.They are available in good reputable health food shops.I buy stuff like valerian tea to help me cope with my migraines otherwise I'm going to be going to the doctor getting stronger and stronger painkillers that cost more and more because one gets habituated to the drugs and they fail to work after a while.I try to do with just basic paracetmol and herb teas to survive..If this happens I won't be able to use a product that has been used since the middle ages to help induce natural sleep.

I personally would like to be given the benifit of the doubt and be allowed to exercise my own judgement in this matter.All the vitamins and supplements available do have the ingredients clearly labelled on them especiallly if you go to a reputable health food shop and buy products produced by reputable names.Holland and Barrett have NO intentions of killing their customers after all...they want them to come back and continue to buy their products.

Also consider this,in whose REAL interest is this directive.Yours?Mine? I doubt it and I suspect that the larger pharmaceuticals will be the winners if this directive goes ahead.They will be the only ones who can afford to prove and test products that DON'T need testing because they have been in use by our forefathers for hundreds of years.Also simple ordinary vitamins tablets will shoot through the roof in price if this happens.

Herbalists are carrying on a tradition that has lasted since the middle ages-why should they have their livihoods affected because of brussels bureaucracy?

True we are allways carefull what we buy and better food education rather than outlawing things would be better

Ramrod · 01-07-2005, 17:09

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Originally Posted by Angua

Perhaps I am being overly cynical but this has always seemed like someone is trying to justify their job or create another revenue stream.

Nope, it's a ploy by the drug companies to increase their revenue

Theodoric · 03-07-2005, 22:46

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Here we go with EU directives again..http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...icle295756.ece

I must remember to get a large supply of evening primrose,valarian tea and feverfew tablets before the 1st of August.

Now you know that I'm never, ever a nit picker in matters of chemistry. However, although I don't know the exact number of vitamins (it seems to increase as time goes by), it's nowhere near 5000, or even 500, or probably even 50.

**Maggy J** · 03-07-2005, 22:51

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

Now you know that I'm never, ever a nit picker when it comes to chemistry. However, although I don't know the exact number of vitamins (it seems to increase as time goes by), it's nowhere near 5000, or even 500, or probably even 50.

You a nit picker?Can't say as I've noticed

However if you reread the article's first sentence.

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Up to 5,000 vitamin and food supplements

It also didn't mention that they were all different vitamins

Theodoric · 03-07-2005, 22:55

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

You a nit picker?Can't say as I've noticed

However if you reread the article's first sentence.

It also didn't mention that they were all different vitamins

Ah, but I was careful to first check the article's headline which says, "Blair opposes EU's directive to outlaw up to 5,000 vitamins", which only mentioned vitamins. I shall continue being a lone voice of chemical sanity when it comes to slipshod newspaper terminology.

**Maggy J** · 03-07-2005, 23:01

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

Ah, but I was careful to first check the article's headline which says, "Blair opposes EU's directive to outlaw up to 5,000 vitamins", which only mentioned vitamins. I shall continue being a lone voice of chemical sanity when it comes to slipshod newspaper terminology.

Slipshod perhaps and poor semantics but chemical sanity?Sounds like a band..

Theodoric · 03-07-2005, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Slipshod perhaps and poor semantics but chemical sanity?Sounds like a band..

There probably is somewhere.

danielf · 03-07-2005, 23:07

Theodoric is right of course, and the thread title is wrong as well...

Kliro · 03-07-2005, 23:08

These are all supplements, so can all be acheived from eating the right foods anyway!

No biggie!