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It is important to note that we are not reporting on a few "snake oil" or "miracle water" bottles. This is really not a massive attempt to protect consumers against the few undesirable "con artists" in this industry. No, we're actually reporting on the fact that nearly 2/3rds of currently available and perfectly valid natural products have been unequivocally banned by the EU Food Supplements Directive and will soon be pulled from the shelves throughout Europe.
Products like:
· Nearly the entire spectrum of natural vitamin E, including gamma tocopherols and tocotrienols
· Mixed, natural spectrum of carotenoids
· All forms of Boron
· 14 different forms of Selenium, including selenium yeast products
· 23 different food forms of Calcium
· Colloidal or ionic trace elements derived from natural sources
· 21 food forms of Iron including iron-based yeast
· 30 different forms of Magnesium
· 21 different forms of Potassium
· Molybdenum - 15 forms of amino acid chelate
... and many other natural substances already proven to be effective.
In fact, a detailed list of the remaining allowable vitamin substances, known as the Approved List" should leave many food supplement manufacturers, health practitioners and consumers quite distressed over the obvious and severe limitations and impact it will have on viable and beneficial existing products - let alone its impact on continued research and innovation.
High Dose Supplements
While food-based (normally low-dose) products appear to have been spared from outright banning by the EU Food Supplements Directive, there are three important points to think about;
