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"Mr President, in the UK there are no specific laws controlling the sale of supplements sold as food. As a consequence, the UK consumers enjoy access to a relatively wide-range of products with minimal restrictions and competitive prices. No one is forced to buy these products and those that do buy them tend to be well informed about their purchases.
Thus, for the Commission to suggest that we approximate our laws on food supplements is in fact to propose creating laws that do not exist at present in the UK. The reason the UK Government has not created them is that there has been no need for them.
By and large the market regulates itself and where false claims are made, unsound or potentially dangerous products are marketed, the existing legal structures have proven adequate. Nor in the market where there is considerable international trade have any particular difficulties been experienced with the movement of goods and a healthy trade on the Internet has developed and is expanding.
There would seem to be scope for the admirable dictum: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Apart from keeping the technocrats busy with yet more interference in other people's lives, there is no need for additional law in this sphere. The Commission should not be attempting to make it. We would be better off without it."@en1
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