Mad about the Food Supplements I. Introduction Everyone who remembers the birth of Food Supplements Directive 2002/46/EC on 10 June 20021 may recollect that Art. 15 of the directive obliged all member states to comply with the directive as of 1 August 2003 at the latest. The German legislator was in no such hurry. Although recent national plans to regulate food supplements and fortified foodstuffs date back to 1997 and a respective German draft ordina