European Food Supplements Directive
Under the new European Food Supplements Directive, vitamins like 1gm Vitamin C - currently on sale in many health food stores in Telford, will be banned. This is not for safety reasons but in the name of ‘European harmonisation’. Conservatives have launched an online petition, working in partnership with the pressure group Consumers for Health Choice who are distributing postcards and posters to local health food stores.
We appeal to Telford residents to sign an online petition to save the vitamins and mineral tablets used by millions of British people.
The European Food Supplements Directive was passed last summer and adopted by the Parliament amidst considerable controversy. The measure paves the way for dramatic changes to the vitamins on sale in this country. Many will have to be reformulated; products such as 1 gram Vitamin C tablets that are frequently used in the cold season and the mineral Boron, important for strong bones and teeth, are set to become illegal once European laws passed recently are fully introduced.
This is all happening in the name of harmonisation, not safety.
Conservatives, supported by the actress Jenny Seagrove and ‘Consumers for Health Choice’ have launched a new campaign to put pressure on the Government to step in and get the right deal in Brussels. A nationwide e-petition has been launched at www.conservatives.com/vitamins to put renewed pressure on Ministers and to make them realise how strongly people feel.
The pressure group Consumers for Health Choice is also distributing one million postcards and posters to health food stores around the country telling their customers about this new Conservative campaign and asking them to support it.
Labour have let down millions of vitamins and food supplements users by rubber-stamping the badly drafted European Food Supplements Directive. It is too late to reverse that decision, but it is not too late to change the way that the laws will be enforced and the small print. It is still possible to save many vitamin and health supplements that people across Telford have been using safely for years.
I call upon local residents to sign our e-petition at www.conservatives.com/vitamins. With the public’s help, we can force Ministers to preserve access to these products on behalf of Telford consumers.
Mrs Stella Kyriazis
We appeal to Telford residents to sign an online petition to save the vitamins and mineral tablets used by millions of British people.
The European Food Supplements Directive was passed last summer and adopted by the Parliament amidst considerable controversy. The measure paves the way for dramatic changes to the vitamins on sale in this country. Many will have to be reformulated; products such as 1 gram Vitamin C tablets that are frequently used in the cold season and the mineral Boron, important for strong bones and teeth, are set to become illegal once European laws passed recently are fully introduced.
This is all happening in the name of harmonisation, not safety.
Conservatives, supported by the actress Jenny Seagrove and ‘Consumers for Health Choice’ have launched a new campaign to put pressure on the Government to step in and get the right deal in Brussels. A nationwide e-petition has been launched at www.conservatives.com/vitamins to put renewed pressure on Ministers and to make them realise how strongly people feel.
The pressure group Consumers for Health Choice is also distributing one million postcards and posters to health food stores around the country telling their customers about this new Conservative campaign and asking them to support it.
Labour have let down millions of vitamins and food supplements users by rubber-stamping the badly drafted European Food Supplements Directive. It is too late to reverse that decision, but it is not too late to change the way that the laws will be enforced and the small print. It is still possible to save many vitamin and health supplements that people across Telford have been using safely for years.
I call upon local residents to sign our e-petition at www.conservatives.com/vitamins. With the public’s help, we can force Ministers to preserve access to these products on behalf of Telford consumers.
Mrs Stella Kyriazis
posted by Carolyn @ 9:59 PM
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