Restrictions on the sale of vitamins

They emphasised that many of the nutrients not contained in the approved list 'are commonly used in food supplements and have been so for a very long time'.
"Basic mineral nutrients such as silicon, boron and sulphur are missing form the list, while fluoride, the need for which in human nutrition has not been established, is included. Commonly used substances such as selenium yeast are also omitted...Also the positive list excludes many of the newer and more easily absorbed nutrient forms such as amino acid chelates, the orotates and all yeast-based nutrient forms", the associations told the Oireachtas Committee