EU's Mathioudakis 'content to outlaw vitamins at high doses'

EU's Mathioudakis 'content to outlaw vitamins at high doses' - Health Supreme NewsGrabs Sunday, 2 May 2010
It is quite incredible, but there are some bureaucrats who would like nothing better than to get rid of nutrients at preventive and therapeutic dosages. The EU Commission's department head for Consumers and Health, Basil Mathioudakis, is one of those. He is pushing to forbid the sale of nutrients that could prevent or cure illnesses. Basil Mathioudakis - Image found here I am not sure whether this is because he has no idea of the potential consequences of his aspirations for people's health, or because he is in some way beholden to pharmaceutical interests that would be content to finally see their competition go down. Think about nutrition making more people healthy and thus competing with pharma's...