Banning of Vitamins?

[musclepump]

I know we've posted on this topic before, but does anyone have any links to more information on this? Is it the UK that's the forefront to do this? The EU? I can't remember, but I'm trying to work on a project with this subject at hand. So if anyone had any info, I'd be much obliged. Thanks!

 

[heeholler]

I just did a quick search this is what I found so far.

http://www.newstarget.com/006819.html

 

[Stu]

Its the EU thats behind it, i blame the french its the sort of idea that they'd come up with.

 

[heeholler]

Just found this also.

http://www.10ac.com/supplement_support.htm

 

[musclepump]

Damn Frenchies!

Thanks for the links. And high five for the European Advocate General!

 

[Vieope]

Is this for real? What did they do? They seem so friendly.

 

[musclepump]

Hmm... one link says the EU AG ruled against it, but then there's this:
http://www.newstarget.com/005776.html

Which is correct?

 

[rrgg]

Fake, sort of. Read what snopes.com has to say about this.

 

[Adamjs]

Ok - completely off the topic at hand, but along the same lines....

We had trouble here in Australia because our vitamin and supplement industry had no regulation. The major company, who shall remain nameless, producing them all was basically whacking any stuff they could find into all of the products, using unclean manufacturing plants, etc etc and just doing whatever the hell they want to do. They got caught out and suddenly everyone realised that because vitamins and supplements weren't considered drugs they had no way to properly regulate them - and we all know that if you over do a vitamin for instance, it can kill you, and the other products, well, half of them have never been medically/scientifically tested.

At the time they said major changes would came about because of new laws they were trying to pass etc. Only difference now is that no one buys the brandname of the drug company who shall remain nameless.

There does need to be some regulation - or otherwise god knows what you're taking and god knows what it could do to you.

p.s scopes.com is one of my fav sites

 

[Nick+]

Some links:

http://www.cec.org.uk/press/myths/myth92.htm

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-77696.html

http://www.laleva.cc/anh-flyer.html