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17 June 2005
The UK's Health Food Manufacturers Association (HFMA) have pushed the UK government hard to promote dossiers.
10 June 2005
If you use vitamin and mineral supplements for health, you might want to fly over to Rome, Italy and crash the July 4-9 meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a little-known international body that wields immense power over the global food market.
09 June 2005
The European Court of Justice announces that the ruling on the ANH's legal challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive will be handed down on 12 July.
16 May 2005
Louise Mclean talked to Dr Robert Verkerk, Executive Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, in order to establish the facts on the EU Food Supplements Directive and get his views on how the ban would affect consumers
16 May 2005
In an unprecedented action, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UNICEF), and an AIDS activist group that promotes drug therapy in South Africa, joined forces in opposing vitamin therapy that exceeds the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA), and in particular vitamin C in doses they describe as being
16 May 2005
Four out of 10 women need to supplement their diets with vitamins if they plan to have a baby, the Royal College of Midwives was told yesterday.
06 May 2005
Hard on the heeels of the Advocate General finding procedural flaws in the European Food Supplements Directive, the US based National Health Federation now finds procedural flaws in the development of Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements.
04 May 2005
The National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), both components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have come up with nearly $7 million to investigate the scientific base of knowledge about the safety, effectiveness, and mechanisms of action of herbal medicines.
29 April 2005
With food scares throughout Europe and ever increasing regulation governing the sale and manufacture of foodstuffs, those in the industry await the European Parliament's Food Supplement Directive with some trepidation. David Cullen and Marcella Clarke report
27 April 2005
Recently, the House of Commons health select committee looked at the submission of ghostwritten articles to medical journals. Witnesses from two pharmaceutical groups, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, "strongly denied that ghostwriting was practised in their respective companies".
27 April 2005
Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system.
22 April 2005
Millions die each year from heart disease and stroke, and the overwhelming evidence is that vitamin C supplementation would save many lives.
15 April 2005
A United States District Court ruled yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration failed to prove that a dosage of 10 milligrams or less of ephedrine alkaloids presents an unreasonable risk of illness of injury when the agency banned all ephedrine-containing dietary supplements last year.
15 April 2005
Statistical experts have already largely discredited the extremely poor meta-analysis announced last Fall by the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine that re-analyzed only 19 studies on Vitamin E.
13 April 2005
Mega-doses of Vitamin C can counter avian flu, hepatitis and herpes, and can even control the advance of Aids By Jane Feinmann
11 April 2005
A daily supplement of zinc can boost the classroom performance of 12 and 13-year-old schoolchildren, a study has shown.
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