Save our Supplements - Setting Upper Safety Limits for Vitamins and Minerals
If you would like to help to protect your right to choose the amount of Vitamin C you can buy without being unnecessarily restricted by the EU, contact the following people and let them know your views:
- Mr Markos Kyprianou, The Commissioner, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection, The European Commission, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.
- Dr Brian Redahan, Director Consumer Protection, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Abbey Court, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. www.fsai.ie
Some of the points you might want to include in your letter or email:
* What you are writing about : The Food Supplements Directive & the setting of Maximum Levels of Vitamins and Minerals
* Who you are: As a single person or as a parent how do you feel about having your health possible jeopodised by the EU? For example, they would like to set the maximum limit for B6 at 10 mg/day, when people are safely taking 50 - 400 mg/day currently to treat common problems ranging from PMT to Asthma. How will this affect you?
* Express your concern at one of the possible motives behind this directive, which many think is linked to the large food companies seeing a new role in the market place for ‘fortified foods’, which would be especially in demand if the general public cannot buy their vitamins any other way.
* For more information on this subject see this article By Dr.Gaby:Safe Upper Limits for Nutritional Supplements: One Giant Step BACKWARD
- Or go to http://www.irishhealthstores.com/