Consumer organisation Foodwatch is running a campaign to have the sale of margarine which lowers cholestrol levels restricted to pharmacies because, the organisation claims, it is a medicine.

The email action follows the introduction of a European Commission rule stating cholestrol-lowering margarines – such as Unilever’s Becel Pro-activ – must display a warning on their packaging that they can be dangerous.

Foodwatch is not satisfied with the new ruling because it does not force manufacturers to put the warning in large letters, according to Nos television.

The organisation is warning people, and particularly children, whose cholestrol is not high not to eat products such as Becel Pro-activ. Eating this product can even cause heart problems, Foodwatch says.