Is protein powder good for you? What a GB label may claim
Is protein powder good for you? A GB label may say only what the claims register allows: four authorised protein claims, and the whey lines refused.
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How much creatine per day? The doses and the 3 g GB claim
How much creatine per day? Most guidance says 3 to 5 g, with loading optional. The figures side by side, and the 3 g a GB label must state to claim.
What does creatine do? The research and the UK label rules
What does creatine do? It raises muscle creatine stores. The research, set against the two creatine claims Great Britain's register lets a label make.
Is 10mg melatonin too much in the UK? The NHS ceilings
In the UK, 10mg of melatonin is the NHS maximum for specialist, longer-term use only. Every UK ceiling by indication, and the strengths the emc lists.
Melatonin for jet lag in the UK: NHS and licence terms
Melatonin for jet lag in the UK is prescription-only. The NHS page and two jet-lag SmPCs, read side by side: 4 or 5 days, 3mg or 6mg, 8pm to 4am.
Can you buy melatonin over the counter in the UK? The routes
No. The NHS calls melatonin prescription-only, and so does the MHRA. Every UK route, from the counter to a private prescriber, read and dated.
Can I bring melatonin into the UK from abroad? The rules
gov.uk's travel-medicine conditions, the controlled drugs list and the NHS prescription-only status, read on 20 September 2026 and set side by side.
Is melatonin a food supplement or a medicine in the UK?
Melatonin is prescription-only in the UK, yet the GB claims register records two authorised food claims for it. Both documents read on 11 September 2026.
A third ruling against the same patch company, and section 15 is not the section it breaches
The ASA upheld both issues against a paid Instagram ad for a Dopamine Patch on 2 September. The rules it cited are worth reading closely, and so is the one it did not.
The MHRA drew a microbiome line, and the probiotics shelf sits outside it
A position paper published on 18 August places microbiome-based medicines inside the medicines framework and puts food supplements and non-therapeutic probiotics expressly out of scope.
Kenari nuts, and what an authorisation with conditions decides
An open Food Standards Agency consultation on one traditional food is a rare chance to watch the machinery that decides which ingredients may lawfully be sold here at all.
Vitamin D remains the UK's one standing supplement recommendation
Most of this shelf exists without any public-health body suggesting anyone needs it. Vitamin D is the exception, and the advice is more specific than the marketing around it.
Permitted health claims still trail the marketing on UK shelves
The list of things a supplement label may lawfully say is public, finite and specific. A good deal of front-of-pack copy is written to gesture past it.