Organisation: Irish Association of Health Stores

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

business

Trouble brewing on tax or a storm in a teacup?

When is tea not tea? When it’s a herbal tea, according to the taxman.

business

Health is wealth for one food distributor

general

Cold comfort

news

Retailers angry at echinacea warning

business

Calls to move budget to February

Stores to take vitamin battle to EU

Health stores reject herbal medicines claim

I WRITE as chairperson of the Irish Association of Health Stores to set the record straight regarding an article in the Irish Examiner of January 21 headed “Doctor warns of herbal medicines ‘stronger than poitín’”.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2006

Legal challenge as EU to ban food supplements

MOST popular food supplements will disappear off the shelves within two years, health stores have warned.

Wed, 24 Sep, 2003

Warning on mixing herbs and medicine

THOUSANDS of people are unknowingly taking potentially lethal cocktails of herbal remedies and prescription drugs.

Tue, 16 Sep, 2003

Vitamin pills don’t work, says study

VITAMIN and mineral supplements are ineffective and can damage health, a new study claims.

Sat, 31 Aug, 2002