Dietary Supplements ― A Framework for Evaluating Safety

Consumers may not be aware that under the Dietary Health and Education Act of 1994, manufactures of dietary supplements are not required to provide safety data. So rather than focusing on the efficacy of increasingly popular supplements, this committee was charged with developing a framework for the Food and Drug Administration's evaluation of their safety based on existing data. The project's legal context and evidence-based approach are overviewed. Appendices provide further details on other frameworks; the scope of the current project; the plant families reviewed; and offer examples of prototype monograph summaries, and summary tables of clinical case reports and animal studies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)