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Fsa Proposal On Vitamin B6

EDM number 1586 in 2002-03, proposed by David Tredinnick on 14/07/2003.

That this House notes that millions of people currently supplement high doses of vitamin B6; further notes that in August the FSA's Expert Group on Vitamins and Minerals requested information on the long-term effects of supplementing vitamin B6 in the dose range of 10mg to 200mg to rule out the possibility of neurotoxicity, for the purposes of establishing an upper safety level; welcomes the study carried out by the Institute for Optimum Nutrition to fulfil this request, published in a peer-reviewed journal, showing no evidence whatsoever of neurotoxicity in the dose range 30mg to 230mg up to 27 months; believes that this is completely consistent with every other human trial on B6; expresses concern that instead of welcoming this study and adjusting their recommendation of a safety level of 10mg, the FSA have written to the researchers, moving the goalposts, and said they are looking for life-time evidence of safety in controlled trials for any food, food additive, pesticide, herbicide or any other common ingredient in diet; and calls on the Government to fund a study to prove that B6 does not induce neurotoxicity, given that millions of people currently supplement 100mg of B6 daily with no adverse effects.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Tredinnick14/07/2003BosworthConservativeProposed
Bob Russell14/07/2003ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth14/07/2003Belfast SouthIndependent Ulster UnionistSigned
David Amess14/07/2003Southend WestConservativeSigned
Bob Spink15/07/2003Castle PointConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins15/07/2003Luton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Iddon15/07/2003Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Vincent Cable15/07/2003TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor15/07/2003North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Rudi Vis16/07/2003Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Brian White16/07/2003North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Simon Thomas16/07/2003CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Graham Stringer16/07/2003Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Anthony Steen16/07/2003TotnesConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs16/07/2003East AntrimUUPSigned
Mike Hancock16/07/2003Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore16/07/2003HendonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn16/07/2003Islington NorthLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/07/2003Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty16/07/2003Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones16/07/2003CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson16/07/2003Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Win Griffiths16/07/2003BridgendLabourSigned
Ian Gibson17/07/2003Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Paul Tyler17/07/2003North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard17/07/2003WalthamstowLabourSigned
Brian Cotter17/07/2003Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara17/07/2003Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Paul Marsden17/07/2003Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Luff17/07/2003Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Andrew Rosindell17/07/2003RomfordConservativeSigned
Tony Colman08/09/2003PutneyLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell09/09/2003East LondonderryDUPSigned
Iris Robinson10/09/2003StrangfordDUPSigned
Ian Paisley10/09/2003North AntrimDUPSigned
David Drew11/09/2003StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Adam Price15/09/2003Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Lindsay Hoyle15/09/2003ChorleyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington15/09/2003Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Austin15/09/2003Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Peter Pike16/09/2003BurnleyLabourSigned
Harold Best16/09/2003Leeds North WestLabourSigned

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