Under this new legislation designed to create a single market in food supplements throughout the EU, each vitamin and mineral will be subject to quite unnecessary and expensive testing programme to justify its place on an 'approved list' and to support any claims made in regard to its curative powers.
Most small producers will not be able to afford to comply with this onerous new regime. The EU has produced a list of permitted nutrients and anything not on the list will be banned, even if they have been sold and used in the UK for many years.

Remove the public's freedom to take commonly used vitamin and mineral supplements
Eliminate over 300 widely used vitamin and mineral products from the market and impose unnecessary limits on the potency of many others.
Obstruct the future development of preventative healthcare and therapy
Take away another of our basic freedoms

There are still EU politicians who believe the pharmaceutical lobby's fairy tale about the need for consumer protection from vitamins and other natural substances. How often do people die from taking vitamins. (Never webmaster) Did you know that the lethal side effects of pharmaceutical drugs are the fourth most common cause of death?
The EU directive has already been voted through the European parliament, over the objections of millions of people. A stay of execution has been granted until 2009.

The House of Lords in 2003 overwhelmingly approved a motion calling upon the British Government not to transform the Food Supplements Directive into UK law.

The Government simply ignored this and allowed a standing committee of MPs to approve the directive (Statutory Instrument 1387) without allowing it to be heard or put to a vote in the House of Commons.
Furthermore, when it realized that there was a danger the committee might vote against the directive, the Government arbitrarily changed the personel the day before and made sure it had enough friendly MPs to win the vote, many of whom would not even have had time to read the paperwork!