David Tredinnick
Chair, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee), Chair, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee), Chair, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee), Chair, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the chemical sources of vitamins and minerals permitted for sale on the UK market but which are omitted from the list of nutrients permitted for use in food supplements under the provisions of Annex 2 of the Food Supplements Directive.
Miss Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health
holding answer
Food supplements, like other foods, are not required to demonstrate their efficacy before marketing, nor are they subject to prior approval unless they are genetically modified or are 'novel'. Therefore, the Food Standards Agency does not hold detailed information about food supplements on the United Kingdom market.
According to information provided by industry, Annex II of the Food Supplements Directive presently omits many chemical sources of vitamins and minerals currently used in food supplements on the UK market. The list of these missing substances is available in the Library.
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