Selling American Supplements in UK

[joseph1537]

I want to sell health supplements, vitamins, nutrition products, and medicines which manufactured in the US to the UK market through an online web store. Does anyone know if there are any legal requirements to do this? I've tried looking into the regulations, but they are a little confusing. Thanks for any pointers you can give.

 

[Awinner2]

No, you can't unless you put every product that you want to sell through a very rigorous and expensive UK regulatory checking/approval procedure. Unless of course, your US supplier is willing to fund this? And you also will have to buy very expensive insurance.

 

[Mr D]

You'd need to meet EU labelling requirements. You'd need whatever allows places to sell medicine - some sort of pharmaceutical licence?
And the product would have to be deemed safe to be sold to the public. Lab tested as needed.
With prescription if necessary.

Have the items met EU requirements to be sold?
This isn't the US, what they are willing to have isn't necessarily legal or accepted here.

 

[Reven1987]

About every single product I ask MHRA. Sorry but I cant put direct email. They reply quite fast and are really helpful.

 

[Instamixes]

No, You can't. You need to take permission of american government to supply products to uk.

 

[Bob Morgan]

Is this Herbalife?

 

[Paulo Marques]

I’d like to have a word with you

 

[DontAsk]

The detail depends whether you want to sell them as medicines (strictly controlled) or simply as health food supplements or worthless placebos (thinking homeopathy here).

 

[Scalloway]

The OP was last seen on 13 April 2020 .

 

[Gyumri]

The OP was last seen on 13 April 2020

Is he still alive?

There's a market for anything which can improve the taste of chlorinated chicken, now that we've left the EU.

 

[Mr D]

Is he still alive?

There's a market for anything which can improve the taste of chlorinated chicken, now that we've left the EU.

Do we normally have chlorinated chicken for sale in the UK?

 

[Gyumri]

Do we normally have chlorinated chicken for sale in the UK?

I don't know - I'll let you know if I see any.

 

[Mr D]

I don't know - I'll let you know if I see any.

I've never come across it - I buy chicken in the supermarket pretty much every week.
It appears common in the US, we apparently just provide better meat handling instead.

 

[DontAsk]

I've never come across it - I buy chicken in the supermarket pretty much every week.
It appears common in the US, we apparently just provide better meat handling instead.

Just wait until we do a trade deal.

 

[DrAnte]

Are you sure that it is strictly prohibited to sell USA supplements in UK? I know that it is true for medications, but for suplements is another regulations.

 

[Mr D]

Just wait until we do a trade deal.

Will it cause you to buy this chlorinated chicken?

 

[Mr D]

Are you sure that it is strictly prohibited to sell USA supplements in UK? I know that it is true for medications, but for suplements is another regulations.

Have to meet UK requirements. Which isn't necessarily the same as US requirements.
They appear to have different idea of 'safe'.

 

[DrAnte]

Have to meet UK requirements. Which isn't necessarily the same as US requirements.
They appear to have different idea of 'safe'.

I know. For example, you can buy 5-HTP from usa and sell in UK because 5-HTP is decared as supplement in USA and in UK. But if you buy GABA from USA and sell in UK you have problem because GABA is supplement in USA but in UK it is prescription medication.

 

[Mr D]

I know. For example, you can buy 5-HTP from usa and sell in UK because 5-HTP is decared as supplement in USA and in UK. But if you buy GABA from USA and sell in UK you have problem because GABA is supplement in USA but in UK it is prescription medication.

LOL - yes, different views of the same item.

Quite a number of items here that can't just buy over the counter that can in US. Perhaps we protect our population better.