As part of their 70 year history, the National Foods Association has been responsible for a number of things associated with Mineral and Vitamin supplements.
In 1938 Congress passed the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which for the first time acknowledged vitamin, mineral and other dietary properties of foods. The bill provides FDA with the ability […]
The Senate recently passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement and now this bill is on its way to the House of Representatives. Under CAFTA, all signatory nations would be required to accept the European Union’s Codex requirements requiring you to have a prescription to buy basic vitamans and mineral supplements.
If this bill is […]
With the New Year just around the corner, now is the time to be thinking about how you can make 2006 your healthiest year ever. While making sure your diet is full of fruit and vegetables it is ideal to supplement it by taking multi-vitamins and minerals.
During the next week I will attempt to […]
British herbal medicine retailers suffered a fresh blow yesterday when a European court upheld new rules restricting what they can sale.
The controversial new EU ruling on vitamin and mineral supplements was upheld yesterday by the European Court of Justice.
The Food Supplements Directive comes into force on 1 August.
Alternative medicine practitioners believe that the law, banning […]
Joint commission of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), has moved to enforce higher global food standards.
CAC adopted more than 20 new and amended food standards during its annual meeting which ended at the weekend
Among the measures adopted were guidelines on vitamin and mineral food […]
There are no rules about the best time of day to take supplements. Take them when they agree with you most. Many people find taking pills of any kind as part of a morning routine is easier to remember, so taking them with breakfast is a popular option. Vitamin and mineral supplements can cause nausea, […]
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.
“As the leading online health […]
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 […]