Resources

The ANH-Intl archive of newsletters, documents, infographics, other pdfs and press releases

  • Onerous laws for botanicals threatens consumer choice in the EU

    The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) controls all food safety matters for the 500 million consumers in the EU. It is now progressing it's approach to how it will deal with botanical ingredients in food supplements. There are real concerns that many very useful botanical ingredients might be regarded as medicinal products—and will so be banned in food supplements.

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  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of EU Natural Health Legislation

    Read the up-to-date ANH summary guide to the 'big 4' of EU legislation threatening the natural health sector.

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  • ANH Sustainable Healthcare campaign launched in Sweden

    Article in Caduceus magazine (UK) discussing ANH's launch of its sustainable healthcare campaign in Sweden in January 2008

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  • EC communication on THMPD 2008

    EC document explaining provisions for Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products under Directive 2001/83/EC.

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  • ANHIC Bulletin Dec 2007

    ANH Innovators Club Bulletin - Dec 2007

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  • Codex moves closer to EU blueprint

    Joint release from the National Health Federation and the Alliance for Natural Health following the 29th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, Bad Neuenahr, Germany, November 2007

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  • Professor Ernst: master trickster of evidence-based medicine?

    ANH exposee of the methods used by Professor Edzard Ernst, Peninsular Medical School, Exeter University, to rubbish complementary medicine

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  • Getting Natural

    Find out why it's so important to think—and be—natural

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  • EU Commission's proposals to limit vitamin and mineral doses not fit for purpose

    ANH Press Release: EU Commission's proposals to limit vitamin and mineral doses not fit for purpose

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  • ANH Position Paper on Maximum Permitted Levels (MPLs)

    The European Commission is in the process of finalising approaches that allow the determination of Maximum Permitted Levels (MPLs) of vitamins and minerals for both food supplements and fortified foods. Read the ANH position on this fundamental aspect of the Food Supplements Directive.

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