Press Releases

ANH release made on 15th July 2005, two days after the European Court of Justice's ruling on the ANH's legal challenge to the EU Food Supplements Directive.

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This is the release the publicises some of the key findings of ANH's expert legal counsel, Paul Lasok QC, following the European Court of justice's ruling in its case on 12th July 2005.

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Press release from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service regarding the pharma biases in journals.

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The ANH open letter was stimulated following EFSA's dismissive response to ANH and Professor Vyvyan Howard's critical commentaries on the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) over the use of sodium monofluorophosphate in food supplements.   

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 Full joint press release by ANH and the Irish Association of Health Stores over Consultative Committee of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland on 27th January 2009.

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ANH release on 26th January 2009, calling for an independent inquiry into EFSA's risk assessment work, on the day ANH released its own critique and another independent commentary by Prof Vyvyan Howard. Both these critiques are referenced in the Notes to the Editor section of the release.

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Release by Dr Sarah Myhill and colleagues regarding their ground-breaking test to diagnose CFS/ME on the basis of mitochondrial dysfunctioon.

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Press release following the decision on 19 January 2009 by the European Parliament's Petitions Committee to keep open the Irish Association of Health Stores' petition challenging the European Commission's planned imposition of draconian maximum limits for vitamin and mineral food supplements in Europe. The petition was presented to the Petitions Committee in Brussels by ANH's Rob Verkerk.

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ANH release responding to Sense About Science's Debunking Detox campaign which claims "detox has has no meaning outside of the clinical treatment for drug addiction or poisoning." ANH dissects some of the irrational and non-scientific statements behind the Sense About Science campaign, which has been fuelled by new recruits in its affiliated organisation Voice of Young Scientists. 

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Press release on ANH rebuttal to Dr Jennifer Lin and colleagues' study published on 7 January 2009 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute which claimed that vitamins don't prevent cancer. Key authors of rebuttal: Drs Robert Verkerk, Steve Hickey and Damien Downing. 

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