Bulletin Vol. 64 no. 2 - AAFI-AFICS, Geneva - UNOG

Legislation has already been passed in Brussels to ban supplements now widely and freely available
in Europe. The "EU Food Supplements Directive" is currently being legally challenged in the courts by
the Alliance for National Health. If implemented, this legislation will bring all nutritional supplements
under the direct control of conventional doctors by making them available only by prescription and
even then in strengths of little therapeutic value, supposedly to "protect" us. A comparably sinister
effort is underway in the USA. Most people are unaware of the pending wide-ranging restrictions on
our access to food supplements and, in some cases, eliminated under this EU ban. Full details can be
found on: www.alliance-natural-health.org. Readers who want to continue to have free access to
nutritional supplements, which will be banned or severely curtailed by the implementation of this EU
directive which comes into full force in August 2005, are encouraged to inform themselves on this
matter. The increasing number of supposedly "scientific" studies claiming to prove the alleged
dangers and/or ineffectiveness of common vitamins such as C & E, given wide media coverage
recently, are evidence of a masked attempt to support this freedom-threatening legislation by creating
fear and doubt in the general population. Why don't we see similar publicity about the hundreds of
thousands of patients killed every year by properly prescribed and administered pharmaceutical
drugs? As Paracelsus said, "Fortunate is the man who has not been killed by his physician."
John Knowles, Paphos, Cyprus
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