STOP the EU Health Claim Ban NOW!

WRITE TO YOUR MEP NOW TO HELP BLOCK THE EU HEALTH CLAIMS REGULATION!

The most effective way to be heard is an old-fashioned letter. To make it easier for you, copy and paste the text below (in italics) and post one copy of the letter to each of your MEPs within your region. If you have more time, a letter in your own words is even more effective.

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Use the address below for each individual MEP:

[Insert name of MEP]
Parlement européen
60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
B-1047 Bruxelles

[or download letter as an editable Word doc in English, French, German languages]

Dear [INSERT MEPs NAME]

Please veto the proposed list of 220 authorised ‘general function’ health claims.

I strongly believe, as a consumer, that I should be given the necessary information to make food choices in full knowledge of the facts. I also recognise that nutritional science, like most areas of natural science, is incomplete, continuously evolving and rarely conclusive. Accordingly, I strongly object to the regulation that will enforce 220 general function health claims, while rejecting over 2,500 claims referring to specific health benefits.

Following are the main reasons why I believe you should veto the proposal. The reasons checked below are the ones I feel most strongly about.

[Please tick one or more point below, to stress your main objections to the proposal]

o      I want the right to make an informed choice about my health. To do this, I need to have more information about the health benefits of foods and food products, not less. 

o      I want my children to be properly educated about the health benefits of foods with the latest scientific and nutritional evidence, so that they too can make healthy choices.

o      I feel the vast reduction in information about health benefits is discriminatory and is going to disadvantage people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

o      I am disturbed that it is large corporations that will mainly benefit from this legislation, because they have the money to pay for the required clinical studies – studies that are largely inappropriate for foods that are essential to life.

o      This legislation infringes freedom of speech. We all have a right to receive uncensored information so that we can make our own informed choices.

o      I want to benefit from new developments in nutritional science. This legislation will stifle innovation among smaller businesses in the EU, because companies will not be able to communicate the benefits of products until they are validated by multiple and often prohibitively expensive clinical studies.

Yours sincerely [INSERT YOUR OWN NAME AND SIGNATURE]

IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT THE HEALTH CLAIMS REGULATION, AND ITS IMPACT – click here for English, French, German!