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Adverse Event Reporting for Dietary Supplements: An Inadequate Safety Valve (PDF|1.9 MB)
DHHS. Office of the Inspector General.
2001 Report on effectiveness of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) adverse event reporting system for dietary supplements in protecting the American consumer.

Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry
Federal Trade Commission.
Provides guidance on identifying and justifying claims on dietary supplements.

Dietary Supplements: Warnings and Safety Information
DHHS. FDA. Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition.
Contains updated warnings and safety information reported for specific dietary supplements.

Food Safety: Improvements Needed in Overseeing the Safety of Dietary Supplements and "Functional Foods" (PDF|974 KB)
US General Accounting Office.
2000 Report.

Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Plants
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
Provides pictures, common names, descriptions, toxic parts of the plants, symptoms of poisoning and distribution maps of those plants normally found in the wild.

Proposed Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements
NRC. NAS. National Academies Press.

Use of Dietary Supplements in the United States, 1988-94
DHHS. CDC. National Center for Health Statistics.
Estimates the use of dietary supplements in the U.S. by demographic group as well as the number and type of supplements taken.

Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Use in the United States
American Medical Association. Archives of Family Medicine.
Results From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Arch Fam Med. 2000;9:258-262. Also in PDF|19 KB.

White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Provides access to a final report (March 2002) of legislative and administrative recommendations concerning complementary and alternative medicine.

Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA
DHHS. Food and Drug Administration.
Includes tips for reporting, a quick-reference chart for reporting problems, and a list of the types of problems FDA doesn't handle.

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