§ Lord McNairasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will now rescind the ban on the sale of capsules and tablets consisting of ground dried comfrey leaf or root used as a food supplement, on the grounds that comfrey is a whole food whose ingredient should not have been assessed in isolation.
Lord LucasNo. The voluntary withdrawal from sale of comfrey products applies only to the most concentrated forms, which are tablets and capsules. The whole food approach was not therefore considered appropriate.