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Milk Of Magnesia Banned By The Eu
It seems the EU is determined to micro manage every aspect of our lives. They know better than the millions of people who have used this product for years with no ill effect.
http:// www.tel egraph. co.uk/h ealth/h ealthne ws/1015 1660/EU -rules- force-m others- Milk-of -Magnes ia-off- the-she lves.ht ml
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My my! There you are again. It's a perfectly legitimate question. Not one recorded death by Milk of Magnesia. Yet it's a fitting subject to be investigated and proscribed by the highly expensive and hugely inefficient EU.
There are no higher priority problems for them to investigate are there?
Perhaps they'd like to tell us what time to go to bed at night in order to save energy.
There are no higher priority problems for them to investigate are there?
Perhaps they'd like to tell us what time to go to bed at night in order to save energy.
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chris
The EU have not 'targeted' Milk of Magnesia or spent time or money investigating
Some time ago they laid down a sulphate limit for all products; all very sensible, reasonable and efficiently done
It is GSK who have now recognised they are not complying
/a GSK spokesman said: “Recent testing showed that one of the ingredients in the product was not compliant with the European Pharmacopaeia sulphate limit test of 0.5 per cent. /
It's all very simple really and has no significance from a governance point of view other than manufacturers have to be more careful what they put in the stuff they sell us
The EU have not 'targeted' Milk of Magnesia or spent time or money investigating
Some time ago they laid down a sulphate limit for all products; all very sensible, reasonable and efficiently done
It is GSK who have now recognised they are not complying
/a GSK spokesman said: “Recent testing showed that one of the ingredients in the product was not compliant with the European Pharmacopaeia sulphate limit test of 0.5 per cent. /
It's all very simple really and has no significance from a governance point of view other than manufacturers have to be more careful what they put in the stuff they sell us
Do you accept that this level is appropriate or not? There were plenty of long established remedies whose formulae had to be changed or the product banned by our government's intervention; Dr Collis Browne's remedy comes to mind. Your objection is to the EU, not the science, isn't it? You'd make a great American; they are forever objecting that their individual state should be making rules which the federal government , for all 50, makes binding on every one.
For starters, the papers have it wrong- not unusual.
It is not the EU that has "implemented a ban". It is the UK MHRA, following guidelines set down by the European Pharmacopoeia, an organisation separate from the EU.
The reason they wish to enforce a ban of not more than 0.5% sulphate in milk of magnesium products is if you get sulphate levels much higher than this, it is possible that magnesium sulphate can form. Magnesium Sulphate can potentially serious central nervous system complications, ranging from depression through to reduced respiration. These are not trivial risks.
The manufacturer, GSK, has voluntarily agreed to stop manufacturing the product whilst doing 2 things; applying for an exemption based upon EP papers and 30 years of trading experience and data, to allow up to a 1% upper limit in sulphates; and exploring alternative manfacturing processes to allow for lower sulphate levels in the product, but this second option does not seem possible.
The EP and the UK MHRA have agreed to this waiver for milk of magnesia.
Bit of a non-story, all in all, fuelled by anti- EU sentiment and knee-jerk over-reaction to some slanted media stories....
http:// blogs.e c.europ a.eu/EC intheUK /cloudy -covera ge-on-m ilk-of- magnesi a/
I would be interested in any other examples you have where the EU is determined to micro-manage our lives?
It is not the EU that has "implemented a ban". It is the UK MHRA, following guidelines set down by the European Pharmacopoeia, an organisation separate from the EU.
The reason they wish to enforce a ban of not more than 0.5% sulphate in milk of magnesium products is if you get sulphate levels much higher than this, it is possible that magnesium sulphate can form. Magnesium Sulphate can potentially serious central nervous system complications, ranging from depression through to reduced respiration. These are not trivial risks.
The manufacturer, GSK, has voluntarily agreed to stop manufacturing the product whilst doing 2 things; applying for an exemption based upon EP papers and 30 years of trading experience and data, to allow up to a 1% upper limit in sulphates; and exploring alternative manfacturing processes to allow for lower sulphate levels in the product, but this second option does not seem possible.
The EP and the UK MHRA have agreed to this waiver for milk of magnesia.
Bit of a non-story, all in all, fuelled by anti- EU sentiment and knee-jerk over-reaction to some slanted media stories....
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I would be interested in any other examples you have where the EU is determined to micro-manage our lives?
Oh, I did try to moderate myself a little bit and decided not to quote the Daily Mail
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-23 52139/M ilk-Mag nesia-d isappea rs-Brit ish-she lves-in gredien ts-fall -foul-E U-meddl ers.htm l
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