Medicure in fight with British nutritional product lobbyist
By: Martin Cash
Updated: June 27 at 12:35 AM CDT
A British natural nutritional product lobbyist has the Winnipeg biotech company Medicure Inc. in its cross hairs over the company's efforts to have a vitamin component banned from sale by the dietary supplement industry.
Dr. Robert Verkerk, director of U.K.-based Alliance for Natural Health, said Medicure's actions regarding a certain byproduct of vitamin B6 is the first-ever attempt by a pharmaceutical company to have the sale of a natural form of a vitamin banned.
Read full story in Winnipeg Free Press.
ANH comment
A small correction to Martin Cash's article: Dr Verkerk is in fact a citizen of the Netherlands.
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