{"id":717329,"date":"2026-06-21T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717329\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:18:25","slug":"health-stores-ireland-concerned-over-potentially-disproportionate-impact-of-new-supplement-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717329\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Stores Ireland concerned over potentially disproportionate impact of new supplement regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group representing health stores in Ireland is concerned consumers here will be disproportionately affected by new regulations around the sale of supplements.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/podcasts\/kerry-today\/save-our-supplements-campaign-june-19th-2026-488093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Save Our Supplements campaign<\/a> has been organised by Health Stores Ireland, a group which represents independent retailers in the sector, including Kerry stores.<\/p>\n<p>A new EU directive governing food supplements including vitamins and minerals, aims to harmonise the maximum amounts sold across all EU states.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Dare of the Save Our Supplements campaign says the regulations would lead to a reduction of vitamin and mineral levels in some supplements sold here.<\/p>\n<p>She uses the example of Vitamin D, of which much higher quantities are needed in Ireland compared to countries like Spain, because of our contrasting climates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group representing health stores in Ireland is concerned consumers here will be disproportionately affected by new regulations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,269,19565],"class_list":["post-717329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}