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.
Download (62 KB)Read the up-to-date ANH summary guide to the 'big 4' of EU legislation threatening the natural health sector.
Download (299 KB)Article in Caduceus magazine (UK) discussing ANH's launch of its sustainable healthcare campaign in Sweden in January 2008
Download (48 KB)EC document explaining provisions for Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products under Directive 2001/83/EC.
Download (48 KB)ANH Innovators Club Bulletin - Dec 2007
Download (219 KB)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
Download (117 KB)ANH exposee of the methods used by Professor Edzard Ernst, Peninsular Medical School, Exeter University, to rubbish complementary medicine
Download (234 KB)Find out why it's so important to think—and be—natural
Download (104 KB)ANH Press Release: EU Commission's proposals to limit vitamin and mineral doses not fit for purpose
Download (154 KB)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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