A LETTER TO YOUR MP ~ A Suggested Approach

You could base your letter on this draft, but personalise it by changing a word or two:

MP's name . . . .
The House of Commons
Westminster
LONDON
SW1A 0AA

[insert date]

Dear MP,

The Food Supplements Directive
Setting Maximum Dose Levels for Vitamins and Minerals

Again, European legislation is threatening to remove from the UK market considerable numbers of safe and popular higher potency food supplements, particularly vitamins and minerals, under the EU Food Supplements Directive.

British industry estimates that this will lead to the closure of large numbers of health food stores and the potential loss of several thousand jobs across the UK.

On my behalf will you please, as a matter of great urgency:

1.Ask for a commitment from the Minister that the maximum permitted dose levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements, which are about to be proposed by the EU Commission, are not set at unnecessarily low levels?

2.Ask the new European Health Commissioner, JOHN DALLI, to make sure his officials do not bring forward proposals that will deny millions of consumers across Europe continued access to safe and popular higher potency vitamin and mineral supplements of their choice?

Thank you for your support.

Yours sincerely,

[insert your name, name and address]