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Vitamin E safety confirmed by new JAMA study

07 July 2005

Several studies have pointed to increased risk of death from vitamin E, although such studies have used purified or synthetic vitamin E and involved diseased persons. This new study in JAMA fills several information gaps.

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Confusion over Codex

06 July 2005

Please find below a note on Codex put out by Isobel Bradley, ANH Campaign Administrator. She reminds us that "all is not lost, by any means, despite the acceptance of Codex texts in Rome at the meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission last Monday".

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Codex Alimentarius To Approve 'Vitamin Guidelines'

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.

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Global Battle Erupts Over Vitamin Supplements

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

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Codex Breaks its Own Rules!

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.

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Republic of Ireland: What are you eating?

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

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How I was asked to 'author' a ghostwritten research paper.

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".

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