In 2011, Denmark enforced a long-standing food regulation that requires added vitamins in commercial food products to be specifically approved by the Danish authorities. Marmite, which is fortified with extra B vitamins (B12 in particular), did not have the approval.
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Was Marmite banned in Denmark? The truth behind the 2011 'ban'
In 2011 the world's papers announced that Denmark had banned Marmite. It had not, and the Danish food authority said so directly. What actually happened was a 2004 law on vitamin-fortified foods, a marketing application nobody had filed, and a very good headline. The real story of the Anglo-Danish Marmite war.
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