date:Jul 06, 2012
British consumers with unverified claims via mail-order catalogues and online.
Guernsey and Jersey-based companies like the biggest player, Healthspan, regularly run foul of the UK advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for making unsubstantiated claims for products like omega-3s and botanicals and cognitive performance.
On Guernsey, the local supplements industry has been resisting moves instigated last year by the islands health minister, Hunter Adam, to bring it in