The Author

Bert Schwitters (1945) has been active in the fields of nutrition and health since the mid 1970s. Over the years, he was owner and manager of companies marketing food supplements in Europe and other parts of the world. In the Autumn of 2011, he returned to his ‘first love’ and original profession, best defined as ‘investigative journalism’. Using the broad and in-depth experience he gained in practically all aspects of the international food supplements business, it is within this capacity of researcher/writer that he meticulously dissected the European Health Claims Regulation. In April 2012, he published Health Claims Censored on the occasion of the vote cast in the European Parliament with respect to a Commission Regulation placing health claims collected and administered by the European Commission in a public Union Register.