Press release following the decision on 19 January 2009 by the European Parliament's Petitions Committee to keep open the Irish Association of Health Stores' petition challenging the European Commission's planned imposition of draconian maximum limits for vitamin and mineral food supplements in Europe. The petition was presented to the Petitions Committee in Brussels by ANH's Rob Verkerk.
Download (663 KB)ANH release responding to Sense About Science's Debunking Detox campaign which claims "detox has has no meaning outside of the clinical treatment for drug addiction or poisoning." ANH dissects some of the irrational and non-scientific statements behind the Sense About Science campaign, which has been fuelled by new recruits in its affiliated organisation Voice of Young Scientists.
Download (489 KB)Press release on ANH rebuttal to Dr Jennifer Lin and colleagues' study published on 7 January 2009 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute which claimed that vitamins don't prevent cancer. Key authors of rebuttal: Drs Robert Verkerk, Steve Hickey and Damien Downing.
Download (761 KB)Read how yet another study has been designed to fail—or designed to prevent vitamin sales perhaps?
Download (145 KB)Drs Steve Hickey and Robert Verkerk's comment which accompanied the longer critique released on 8 January 2009 of Dr Jennifer Lin and colleagues randomised controlled trial on vitamin supplements and cancer, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Download (104 KB)EU regulatory overview.
Download (907 KB)ANH Innovators Club Special Bulletin - Dec 2008
Download (907 KB)Codex guidelines for the use of nutrition and health claims, as amended 2009.
Download (33 KB)Released on 18th November 2008, jointly with the American Association for Health Freedom, drawing attention to the gross inadequacies of Howard Sesso and colleagues' Physicians' Health Study II in assessing the value of vitamins C and E in the prevention of heart disease.
Download (766 KB)This is the ANH rebuttal to Sesso et al's findings from the Physicians' Health StudyII, published in JAMA in November 2008. The study generated international headlines suggesting that vitamin C and E supplements were ineffective for the prevention of heart disease.
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