We are calling on:
 
His Majesty's Government to bring the food supplement provisions of the SPS Agreement before Parliament for a vote before any alignment takes effect — and to commission an independent review leading to a UK Natural Health Products framework.

MPs across all parties to demand scrutiny of the SPS Agreement's food supplement scope, respond formally to the EU consultation on behalf of their constituents, and support a parliamentary lock on any future alignment.

We are calling on a new category of whole herb extractions to be treated separately from present Novel Food legislation, Food Standards Legislation and Food Supplements Legislation.  Labelling should be based on research and medical claims should be possible with cautions and contraindications made clear.
 
The European Commission to produce evidence-based, proportionate regulation — not harmonisation that ignores 5,000 years of clinical use and pushes millions of patients toward unregulated sources.
 
Sign this petition. Share it. Write to your MP. The Government committed to EU supplement alignment without a parliamentary vote. We are not just demanding scrutiny of that decision. We are demanding the framework that means no future government can repeat it.
 
This is your right to heal. And for the first time in a long time, we have the momentum to make it permanent.

Context.

In March 2026, a page published by the UK Government caught the attention of many concerned consumers and patients across the nation. Among a long list of EU legislations the UK has agreed to align with, there were significant mentions of areas such as food safety and animal health rules. However, what alarmed many was the inclusion of the following phrase: "broader nutrition-related areas such as food supplements, nutrition and health claims, and nutrition labelling."

This revelation brings to the forefront a crucial issue: the transfer of control over the regulation of food supplements from UK authorities to EU regulators. This decision was made without adequate discussion or a parliamentary vote, affecting not just the present but potentially the future autonomy of UK legislation concerning our dietary supplements.

This is not just a call for immediate action but a movement towards a long-term solution—one that respects the will of its people and protects the rights of consumers. Sign this petition to demand accountability, to protect our choice and welfare, and to secure the integrity of our supplement regulations. Join us in making sure this battle is never fought again.  We need the SPS Agreement to be scrutinised in Westminster.
 
Parliament did not vote on this. You were not consulted. It was agreed as part of a broader trade and food safety deal with the EU, and announced in a press release most people never saw.
 
The people voted to take back control of UK law. Committing UK supplement standards to EU alignment through a trade agreement technical annex — without a parliamentary vote — is not what that mandate meant.
 
And here is why it matters right now.
 
The EU is in the process of setting new rules for food supplements — rules the UK has already committed to following. Those rules include:
 
- Capping Vitamin D at 800 IU. Your skin produces twelve times that in one afternoon in summer sunshine.
- Capping Vitamin B6 at 12.5mg. The World Health Organisation's own upper limit is 100mg.
- Restricting or banning 13 herbal ingredients including ashwagandha, St John's Wort, curcumin (from turmeric), berberine, black cohosh, tribulus, and piperine.
- Restricting medicinal mushrooms as novel foods. We have already lost cordyceps and turkey tail as over-the-counter supplements. The MHRA and FSA restricted them after the EU classified them — exactly the pattern that will now repeat for herbs and vitamins.
 
The EU consultation that will shape these rules closes this autumn. Once it closes, the text is drafted. Once the legislation passes, the UK aligns with it. The supplements you buy freely right now become unavailable, reformulated to doses too low to help anyone, or restricted to prescription only.
 
In  Europe, medical herbalists cannot legally diagnose patients or prescribe herbal treatments. When the EU removes a botanical from the market, that is the end of the road for European patients — there is no clinical route back.
 
In the United Kingdom, licensed medical herbalists can still diagnose and dispense under Clause 241 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. It is one of the most important and least-known protections in our health system. If UK standards align with EU standards — if imports are tightened, if supply chains are harmonised, that protection is eroded quietly. No announcement. No vote. No debate. The supplements go first. The practitioner route follows.
 
You can walk into any UK supermarket right now and buy ibuprofen, aspirin, and paracetamol — responsible for tens of thousands of UK hospital admissions every year. No dose cap proposed. No consultation launched. Freely available in bulk without question.
 
The herbs and vitamins on the restriction list have no comparable hospitalisation record.  If the Government applied the same risk-benefit calculation to paracetamol that the EU is applying to ashwagandha, paracetamol would not survive it.
 
This is not a safety-led process. It is a harmonisation exercise dressed up as consumer protection.
 
But we are not going to win this by asking for a pause. We have been here before. Regulatory threats come, campaigns resist, and a year later the same threat returns in a new form. We need the structural changes that mean the fight does not have to happen again.
 
Canada created its Natural Health Products Regulations in 2004 — a distinct legal category for traditional botanical preparations, separate from pharmaceuticals and from general food supplements, that accepts centuries of traditional use as evidence, permits appropriate health claims, and treats whole plants as whole plants. The UK has not looked at this adequately.  We should.  We need to campaign for this.
 
Traditional plants and fungi are being classified as "novel foods" — as if turmeric, cordyceps, and ashwagandha had not been used by human beings for thousands of years. There should be a formal process for recognising traditional use as a route to exemption from novel food classification that is fit for purpose and not based on a specific date.