Ultimately it is the consumer who must pay the premium, in this case receiving little benefit from the added expense since vitamins are not drugs. The position of independent expert scientists is that vitamin B6 is completely safe at up to 200 mg per day, allowing for a considerable safety margin. Signs of toxicity may begin to show in a small proportion of people after taking 500 mg per day for months or years. UK consumers would be very grateful if you could help us to save our B6 by writing to our Food Minister to vouch for the safety of these products. This could become law this year, but not until a consultation process has taken place with interested parties and organisations.
All help is much appreciated.
I have read, and agree with the concerns expressed by Linda Lazerides of the Society for the Promotion of Nutritional Therapy as expressed below, and request that you send me a copy of your response to her concerns. Consumers world wide refuse to tolerate efforts such as this by the pharmaceutical industry to demonize safe natural products as part of a global campaign to dominate and take over the dietary supplement industry. This move to regulate vitamin B-6 is unscientific, arbitrary and capricious. Pharmaceutical marketing licences are designed to prevent drug tragedies like thalidomide and can add 150,000 UK pounds to the total cost for consumers. Many favourite brands which do not have the funding and resources for animal trials and other pharmaceutical requirements would disappear.