{"id":1259,"date":"2010-05-19T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2024-07-17T02:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:51:38","slug":"latest-european-court-of-justice-ruling-on-supplements-so-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Latest European Court of Justice Ruling on Supplements: So-So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jurisp\/cgi-bin\/gettext.pl?where=&amp;lang=en&amp;num=79899570C19080446&amp;doc=T&amp;ouvert=T&amp;seance=ARRET#Footnote*\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>\u00a0was recently handed down by the European Court of Justice in April about supplement regulation.<span id=\"more-3225\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>First the bad:<\/p>\n<p>The court accepted the scientific methodology that our Dr. Rob Verkerk has so effectively\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anh-usa.org\/anh-international-executive-and-scientific-director-dr-rob-verkerk-publishes-article-in-respected-scientific-journal-explaining-why-european-regulation-of-supplements-based-on-bad-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>\u00a0to be highly flawed. This is not too surprising. What do judges know about science?<\/p>\n<p>But there is some good too:<\/p>\n<p>The Court also ruled that national governments or the European Commission cannot implement excessively low maximum vitamin levels without demonstrating \u201cgenuine\u201d or \u201creal\u201d risks to human health. ANH- Europe believes that this \u2018supreme view\u2019 from the highest court in Europe could pave the way for preventing disproportionate bans on particular molecular forms of nutrients that are known to be safe (and beneficial) at supplemental doses currently used. For more on this story, please see the following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anh-europe.org\/news\/mixed-bag-ruling-from-european-court-on-french-vitamin-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from ANH-Intl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anh-usa.org\/latest-european-court-of-justice-ruling-on-supplements-comme-ci-comme-ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.anh-usa.org\/latest-european-court-of-justice-ruling-on-supplements-comme-ci-comme-ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important\u00a0ruling\u00a0was recently handed down by the European Court of Justice in April about supplement regulation. First the bad: The court accepted the scientific methodology that our Dr. Rob Verkerk has so effectively\u00a0shown\u00a0to be highly flawed. This is not too surprising. What do judges know about science? But there is some good too: The Court &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest European Court of Justice Ruling on Supplements: So-So&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56654,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/56654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}