What else is under threat?

Next to vitamins and minerals, the greatest threat is to herbal remedies. Legislation is already in place and we have until 2011 to make Regulators understand that although we all want the herbals to be safe, the huge costs being imposed by Government to register products means that hundreds of products will be lost - and consumer choice severely restricted.

Fish oils, botanicals (herbal products currently sold under food law), essential fats, evening primrose oil, amino acids and many more will all fall under the EU hatchet. Some of them quite soon.

The Food Supplements Directive (vitamin & minerals legislation) has always been described as a 'framework' directive. From that framework everything else will follow - that's why they MUST get it right!