August 6, 2007

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are widespread in Europe

So why is the European Commission planning to ban thousands of supplements when it has already admitted that most of them are safe? August 2007 — […]
June 4, 2007

EU-U.S. Summit Signals New Threats To Natural Health Therapies

New transatlantic economic integration agreement and secret FDA-EU ‘confidentiality arrangement’ threaten the harmonizing of U.S. dietary supplement legislation to restrictive European regulations   APRIL 2007 – The […]
January 16, 2007

New York University Law Review Criticises Codex

Apparently escaping the notice of most prominent Codex-watchers at the time it was published in 2006 in the New York University Law Review. This paper describes […]
January 15, 2007

Nutrient Risk Assessment: What You’re Not Being Told

  January 2007 (Revised August 2007) – Pro-pharmaceutical and anti-vitamin freedom forces have made significant strides in recent years towards their ultimate aim of removing all […]
October 30, 2006

CODEX: What is it and how does it affect you and your health?

October 2006 – Codex is not an easy subject to get to grips with. With over 20 committees meeting on an annual basis, and published reports […]
September 16, 2006

Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting: Geneva, Switzerland, July 2006

July 2006 – The 29th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission took place in Geneva, Switzerland, 3-7 July, 2006. Whilst it may have been somewhat “out […]
December 20, 2005

The Worst Is Still To Come

November 2005 – November 2005 saw the 27th meeting of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) take place in Bonn, […]
September 21, 2005

Codex Alimentarius and the GM Threat

August 2005 – Consumers of dietary supplements have been growing increasingly concerned over the past few years about the activities of an organization known as the […]