Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-14-Speech-3-167"
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Food supplements are a sensible option which allow us to avoid possible dietary deficiencies and to stay healthy as well as prevent premature ageing. Obviously, they should not present a health risk. Furthermore, I approve the attempts to establish a European basis for food supplements, given the differences in relevant national provisions.
However, we should refrain from working towards European legislation that is too restrictive. I have consulted specialists who confirm that taking vitamins and minerals orally presents virtually no health risk. We must also avoid undue restrictions and administrative hassles that prevent us, in the European Union, from monitoring scientific discoveries and passing on the benefits of these to the consumer.
Basically, a food supplement should be considered to be something that enhances one’s diet and testing should concentrate on the quality of ingredients and manufacture, rather than on what the supplements contain.
We must also avoid drawing up a list of vitamins that is too restrictive. Why are Vitamins E and D not included when, at the moment, because of fears relating to exposure to sun light, there is a serious deficit of Vitamin D which causes a higher risk of osteoporosis?
I am not a doctor, nor do I consider myself to be an expert in this subject, and so I have to place my trust in scientists. I do not understand, however, how Members of the European Parliament can hope to be involved in the choices made by scientists in areas such as minimum and maximum doses or criteria of purity, as suggested in the explanatory statement.
I voted in favour of the report, but I wanted to make these comments in the hope that the Commission and the Council will understand that overzealousness and excessive restrictive regulation are out of place in this matter as they are in others."@en1
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