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EU health claims: ANH provides comments to EFSA

18 June 2007

The European Food Safety Authority has asked for public comments on its planned procedures for allowing disease risk reduction claims for foods. Sounds promising, but ANH argues this is a passport system for big business...

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Australian court finds PAN innocent

20 April 2007

Following the largest recall of complementary health products in history in 2003, Jim Selim, boss of the company at the centre of the allegations, has now been found innocent...

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JAMA - 'vitamins kill' - no they don't!

05 March 2007

Last week we saw headlines around the world that told people that 'vitamins kill'. ANH provides insight into how, it would appear, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) resorted to massaging previous studies to stop people taking vitamins.

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University study says organic may harm the planet

21 February 2007

Researchers from University of Manchester Business School reveal that although organic foods may create less impact on the environment that conventionally-produce foods, this is not always the case. The Soil Association in the UK however criticised the authors of the study saying that many of the benefits of organic production were ignored.

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Disgraced head of Chinese FDA is executed

24 January 2007

Zheng Xiaoyu, formerly the man responsible for ensuring the safety of China's foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals, was executed yesterday for corruption. Whilst the ANH does not espouse the death penalty, the message that the drug companies will stop at nothing in the name of profits, is clear. One wonders what would happen if the same were to occur in the West?

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