Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Tredinnick (Conservative), on Monday, 14 July 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 42 members in total.

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FSA PROPOSAL ON VITAMIN B6

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1586 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Consumption Health hazards Food Standards Agency Side effects Vitamins Vitamin B6

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk