23/08/2026
Please write to your MP about the EU Consultation on supplements. Below there is a piece to use if you don't know what to say.. The EU is in the process of setting new rules for food supplements — rules the UK has already committed to following. Those rules include:
The EU is in the process of setting new rules for food supplements — rules the UK has already committed to following. Those rules include:
- Capping Vitamin D at 800 IU. Your skin produces twelve times that in one afternoon in summer sunshine.
- Capping Vitamin B6 at 12.5mg. The World Health Organisation's own upper limit is 100mg.
- Restricting or banning 13 herbal ingredients including ashwagandha, St John's Wort, curcumin (from turmeric), berberine, black cohosh, tribulus, and piperine.
- Restricting medicinal mushrooms as novel foods. We have already lost cordyceps and turkey tail as over-the-counter supplements. The MHRA and FSA restricted them after the EU classified them — exactly the pattern that will now repeat for herbs and vitamins.
The EU consultation that will shape these rules closes this autumn. Once it closes, the text is drafted. Once the legislation passes, the UK aligns with it. The supplements you buy freely right now become unavailable, reformulated to doses too low to help anyone, or restricted to prescription only.
I've just signed the petition “Demand UK regain control over food supplements regulation” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Thanks Denise x
Demand UK regain control over food supplements regulation
