Diet and Nutritional Approaches

MODALITY: DIET AND NUTRITIONAL APPROACHES

e.g. Dietary Therapy, Nutritional Therapy, Naturopathy, Kinesiology...

New ANH guidance for nutritional therapists:

Right and wrong things for nutritional therapists to say in marketing information:
Are your websites and leaflets ‘EU/UK legislation / CAP Code’ – proof?

Do you know where the food-medicine borderline sits?
A nutritional therapist’s presentation of a product can turn it from a simple food supplement to an illegal, unlicenced medicine incurring the wrath of the Department of Health, the MHRA or the ASA!

Finding your way around the EU Register of Nutrition and Health Claims
Will your food and supplement claims be ‘authorised’ or ‘non
authorised’ after 14th December 2012?

Important Download...
Rules and Regulations Affecting Clinical Practice

Date: 21st May 2011

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, London 

If you were unable to attend in person and would like to benefit from the essential information offered, or attended and would like a reminder of the day the full seminar pack is available for just £40 to practitioners only – with all proceeds going to the ANH-Intl campaign fund – and provides you 4.5 CPD hours. 

Purchase the seminar pack

The seminar pack contains:

The full delegate volume with all the slides, the graphic summaries, a comprehensive glossary, presenter and exhibitor information

The day’s video recording with incorporated slides to give you the same feeling as if you had attended

The pre-reading pack that delegates were sent prior to the event

Extensive supporting documentation for future reference purposes

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Link to BANT's RULES AND REGULATIONS Page (available only to BANT members)

ANH-Intl have audited and contributed the source materials which BANT has interpreted and presented in this unique format. The format and presentation are the copyright of BANT and should not be reproduced without prior permission.

Important!... 
If you use herbal products in your practice, please visit our EU herb challenge webpage

Europe: Legislative Risks 

Current and anticipated regulatory frameworks, built around often inappropriate western, evidence-based, scientific methods of evaluation of both efficacy and risks of natural therapies, present a very serious threat to the continuation and expansion of these therapies. Some of the greatest threats originate from the complex European regulatory model, that also forms the basis for international guidelines and standards in the process of being developed through the UN organ, the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

Download our  2010 ANH/BANT summary flyer for Nutritional Therapists 

Click on the links below to read about how this EU legislation may affect you: 

Food Supplements Directive
    ANH summary
    ANH briefing paper FSD / General
    ANH briefing paper FSD / MPLs
    ANH position paper on MPLs (Oct 2007): "MPLs Not Fit for Purpose" 
    ANH article (Jan 2008) "Why should we be concerned about MPLs?"
    EC Draft Commission Regulation Annex I and II

During June 2009 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) completed its assessment of all the dossiers submitted during the derogation period of the transition measures under Article 4(6) of the EU Food Supplements Directive (2002/46/EC).  The updated version of the draft European Commission Regulation intended to amend the Food Supplements Directive to add the substances which received a favourable opinion from EFSA to those already listed on the Positive List in Annex II of the Directive.  The draft Regulation reflected all the substances for which EFSA gave positive opinions and has took the Positive List to 181 allowed forms of vitamins and minerals.  

This draft Regulation then went forward for consideration by a Scrutiny Committee and then to the European Parliament and Council.  When the Regulation was enacted amendments took place within the statutory instrument for each Member State in order for its implementation into law.  The end of the derogation period was officially 31st December 2009 and products containing forms of vitamins and minerals that were not listed on the amended Annex II became illegal under EU law and prohibited from sale.

Practitioners should be aware that there are some substantial gaps and that some forms of vitamins and minerals commonly used in food supplements were no longer allowed from the beginning of 2010.  For example many of the amino acid chelates and vanadium received negative opinions and are not on Annex II.  We would be grateful if you could take the time to check products that you currently use and let us know of any specific forms of vitamins and minerals that are not listed so that we might include this in our submission of stakeholder comments.

Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive
Important! If you use herbs in your practice, please visit our EU herb challenge webpage
    European Commission summary
    ANH summary
    EC specific provisions
    ANH briefing paper THMPD
    ANH response to EMEA re THMPD challenges
    EC Medicinal products for human use (herbal) - Major developments 

Human Medicinal Products Directive
    European Commission summary
    ANH summary

Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation
    European Commission summary
    ANH summary
    ANH briefing paper NHCR updated Dec 09
    EFSA webpage on NHCR with published opinions

Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulation
    European Commission summary   
    ANH summary

Foodstuffs Intended for Particular Nutritional Uses (Parnuts) Directive
 

Scientific Risks

text under development 

Media Risks

Negative publicity that may affect your business includes headlines such as:
Daily Mail 16/04/08: ''Can vitamins do you harm?'' Supplements may even shorten your life, claim scientists’’. This came from a review published by Cochrane Collaboration.

Click here to read ANH’s rebuttal.