Already the EU has passed a law which will come into effect in 2005 to ban the sale of 300 nutrient forms from the list of 420 that are currently available. This will affect over 5,000 products (85% of vitamin/mineral products). The nutrient-forms that have been banned are the more bio-available food-derived forms that have appeared over the last decade or so as a consequence of innovative research. In short, we will be back to low potency, inorganic, synthetic nutrients such as those sold in supermarkets and available years ago. The banned items include natural vitamin forms such as the mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E), carotenoids, and methylcobalamin (B12), selenomethionine (the common form of selenium found in foods, but the list does allow inorganic selenium such as sodium selenate and sodium selenite which is known to be more toxic and deliver less beneficial results), all forms of sulphur (no MSM!), boron, vanadium, silicon, and most trace elements, the most readily absorbed and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc, chromium and molybdenum, and many chelated and plant derived forms. By 2007 the EU is planning to apply similar restrictions to other nutrient groups such as fatty acids (no more fish oils?), amino acids, fibre, and plant extracts.