FRANCE – ECJ – VITAMINS
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTIGHT restrictions imposed by French regulators on the market approval of nutrient enriched drinks break European Union free trading rules, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It said that France has neither been sufficiently "proportionate" nor based product bans on "the latest scientific data" to follow EU food health regulations. The court ruled France should not ban vitamin-enriched drinks "on the sole ground that they would increase the usual intake (of a vitamin) from an already sufficiently varied diet and that there is no nutritional ...
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