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ANH Position Paper on Maximum Permitted Levels (MPLs)

19 Oct 07

Category: ANH EU food supplements legal challenge

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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ANH Practitioners Summary: Nutrition and Health Claims Regulations

17 Jun 08

Category: Directives/Regulations

Download ANH summary for practitioners concerning threats posed by the EU's Nutrition and Health Claims Regulations

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EU Human Medicinal Products Directive (as amended in 2004)

31 Mar 04

Category: Directives/Regulations

The 2004 amendment to the EU Human Medicinal Products (Pharmaceuticals Directive) [Dir 2001/81/EC] which regulates all medicinal products, including, as of this amendment, traditional herbal medicinal and homeopathic products.

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ANH Practitioners Summary: Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products

16 Jun 08

Category: Directives/Regulations

Download ANH summary for practitioners concerning threats posed by the EU's Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive.

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Codex Alimentarius exclusive on the lead up to the Chiang Mai meeting of CCNFSDU

24 Oct 06

Category: Articles and meetings on Codex

 Get the low-down on what the Codex Alimentarius is up to in relation to natural health on the lead up to the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2007 

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UK Dept Health Steering Group Report on Statutory Regulation of traditional practitioners

15 Jun 08

Category: European regulatory affairs

The UK is in the process of bringing in statutory regulation of practitioners of traditional systems of healthcare, ranging from acupuncture, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other traditional systems of medicine. This full report to Ministers of the Department of Health Steering Group tells you how it's being enacted.

 

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ANH consultation response to FAO/WHO nutrient risk assessment project

10 Dec 04

Category: ANH risk benefit project

ANH critique of FAO/WHO nutrient risk assessment methodologies, 10 December 2004

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The Precautionary Principle: A Critique in the Context of the EU Food Supplements Directive

15 Dec 06

Category: ANH risk benefit project

Hanekamp (2006). Environmental Liability, 2:  43-51.

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Food Supplements and Fortified Foods: the EC's patriarchal precautionary perspective on public health

05 Nov 06

Category: ANH risk benefit project

Hanekamp & Bast. Environmental Law Management, 5: 181-191.

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Food Supplements and European Regulation within a Precautionary Context

26 Mar 07

Category: ANH risk benefit project

Hanekamp & Bast (2007). Food Supplements and European Regulation within a Precautionary Context: A Critique and Implications for Nutritional, Toxicological and Regulatory Consistency

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