Consumers, retailers and small manufacturers will be damaged by the Government’s approval of a “draconian” EU directive which could see thousands of common food supplements and vitamins banned.
Ministers were motivated by “a determination to follow the harmonisation agenda across Europe at all costs”, Tory spokesman on nutrition Chris Grayling said.
Opening an Opposition half-day debate on […]
Quixtar Inc. (http://www.Quixtar.com ) has donated $228,000 worth of Nutrilite® Kids Chewable Multivitamin/Multimineral tablets to The Healthy Foundation’s Vitamin Relief USA program. These supplements — some 720,000 tablets in 8,000 bottles — will aid the foundation’s ongoing campaign to provide vitamins to school-aged children at risk for malnutrition and nutrient deficiency.
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At one time she was almost part of the furniture at 10 Downing Street, regularly slipping almost unnoticed through the most famous front door in the country.
But on Tuesday morning, Carole Caplin was left shivering on the Blairs’ doorstep, like any other parliamentary lobbyist.
Caplin returns to Number 10
A legal battle over new European health food laws reaches the European Court of Justice today as the British health food industry fights measures which it says will ban thousands of common food supplements and bankrupt many suppliers. Meanwhile, MPs at Westminster are staging a three-hour debate on regulating health foods.
An estimated 5,000 vitamin and […]
Although potassium is a mineral found in almost every food group, poor eating habits can leave you short. Even if its deficiency is still not directly linked to a disease, like vitamin C to scurvy, this nutrient serves many vital functions in the body.
HealthAmerican Institute for Cancer Research - It’s commonly known that sodium can […]
For 70 million arthritis sufferers, the past few months have been a nightmare. The medicines they rely on to ease their aches and pains have come under fire.
First, Merck withdrew its popular arthritis drug Vioxx because it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Then the Food and Drug Administration required a black-box warning about […]
Tiens Biotech Group (USA), Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: TBGU) , which operates primarily through its subsidiary Tianjin Tianshi Biological Development Co., Ltd (”Biological”), today announced that Jinyuan Li, Chairman, President and CEO of the company, has been named One of the Top Ten Men of the Year for 2004 in China. He received the award in […]
Consumers and producers of popular vitamin and mineral supplements used by thousands every day will this week make a last-ditch attempt to prevent a European Union directive from banning them.
Prolonged magnesium deficiency leads to osteoporosis in rats, finds new research, which could present a warning to many populations not getting adequate levels of the mineral through their diets.
The scientists from Tel-Aviv University and the University of Luebeck in Germany compared rats fed a magnesium-deficient diet daily with rats fed a diet with adequate levels […]
On Tuesday 25th January, Carole Caplin and Chris Grayling MP will visit No.10 to deliver a letter protest to the prime Minister about the EU ban on sales of vitamins and minerals in the UK. They will be joined by numerous protesters and backed by one of the largest e-mail petitions to British MPs, which […]