Food Supplements Directive

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:46 pm on 25 January 2005.

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Photo of Miss Melanie Johnson Miss Melanie Johnson Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health 4:46, 25 January 2005

I wish to make progress for a minute. Then I will be happy to take interventions. I am not suggesting that such questions necessarily apply in this case, but there is no systematic way of reporting adverse reactions. The yellow card system is not used to pick up the adverse reactions to these substances. People may take them and decide to change to something else without ever reporting adverse reactions or being aware that the adverse reaction has been caused by the preparation that they have taken.