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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9194

18 May 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/consumers
Move towards harmonisation on vitamins and minerals in food

Brussels, 17/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, Parliament adopted the report by Karin Scheele (PES, Austria) on harmonising national rules on the addition of vitamins and minerals to foodstuffs in order to ensure a high level of consumer protection. The regulation, as voted by the EP after agreement with the Council, set out a list of more than one hundred formulae for vitamins and minerals that can be added to foods, and bans their addition to unprocessed fresh foods such as such as...

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