MP fights to beat vitamin ban

Newsquest (Worcestershire) Ltd

July 10, 2003



WEST Worcestershire MP Sir Michael Spicer said he fully supported a move to amend European regulation which would ban 300 vitamin supplements from being sold in health stores.

I have had hundreds of letters from angry constituents about this matter, he said. Quite rightly they want to limit the role of the nanny state, particularly when the issue is being driven from Brussels. Next in line are to be herbal medicines and other alternative homeopathic remedies.

Sir Michael added: The sensible approach would be to ban only those remedies which have known harmful effects and have been scientifically assessed as such by the Scientific Committee for Food. This is not what will happen.

Instead, people will be deprived from August 1 of using products which have been, apparently harmlessly, available for a long time and which they feel will do them good. It is a scandal.

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