Your right for accurate and useful information about foods and food supplements is, I’m afraid to say, once more under attack. A proposed EU regulation, to be voted on in the European Parliament later this month, will mean that virtually nothing can be said about any of the health promoting properties of food. It may also restrict what I or any journalist can say to you, or what a health practitioner can say to you – unless it is an ‘allowed claim’.

> details on the proposed EU regulations

> details of the current allowed health claims

In recent days > the Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued a consumer warning on consumption of certain fish; Marlin, Shark, and Swordfish are to be avoided. Tuna consumption should be reduced.

All fish oil products sold in our shop are screened for heavy metals, PCB’s, Dioxins etc., and Certificates of Analysis are provided for every batch produced.