food supplements in the uk again
I did not notice until today that some members of the UK Parliament have proposed a Bill to disapply the food supplements directive and regulations in the UK (the Food Supplements (European Communities Act 1972 Disapplication) Bill. Clause 1 of the Bill provides that the 2002 Directive and any judgment of the ECJ relating to it shall have no effect in the UK. The Bill goes on to state in clause 3(3) (amending the Food Safety Act 1990):
(1) The appropriate authority shall make regulations—
(a) prohibiting the sale of any food supplement in the manufacture of which a vitamin or mineral has been used unless that vitamin or mineral—
(i) is authorised for use in the manufacture of food supplements, and
(ii) is in a form which is so authorised and meets such purity criteria as shall be specified; and
(b) making such other provision relating to food supplements as it considers appropriate.
(2) Before making regulations under subsection (1) the appropriate authority shall consult—
(a) such persons or bodies as appear to it to be representative of the interests of complementary medicine, and
(b) such other persons or bodies as it considers appropriate.
Private Members’ Bills are rarely enacted in the UK. If the Bill were enacted would it be valid? Should it be valid?