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Consumer Updates: Dietary Supplements
Consumer Updates are timely articles that cover product approvals, safety warnings, and other health information for you and your family. You can sign up to receive e-mail alerts about new articles immediately after they are posted on FDA's Web site, or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. You can also sign up for an RSS feed. Some of these articles are available in Spanish.
Consumer Updates related to dietary supplements are featured on this page. The law defines dietary supplements in part as products taken by mouth that contain a "dietary ingredient." Dietary ingredients include vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs or botanicals, as well as other substances that can be used to supplement the diet. Federal law does not require dietary supplements to be proven safe to FDA's satisfaction before they are marketed. After a dietary supplement is on the market, FDA has certain safety monitoring responsibilities. The agency suggests that consumers consult with a health care professional before using any dietary supplement. Dietary supplements are regulated by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Dietary Supplements
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: August 2009
- Warning on Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances
- FDA Warns Not to Consume Two Liquid “Energy” Products
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: June 2009
- La FDA promueve la apertura y la transparencia hacia el público
- FDA Promotes Openness and Transparency to Public
- Warning on Hydroxycut Products
- More Weight Loss Products Added to Consumer Alert
- Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA
- FDA 101: How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and MedWatch
- Fortify Your Knowledge About Vitamins
- FDA and WebMD Form Partnership
- FDA 101: Product Recalls - From First Alert to Effectiveness Checks
- Is It Really FDA Approved?
- New Steps to Improve Advisory Committee Processes
- FDA 101: Advisory Committees
- Sea cuidadoso de fraude del cáncer en línea
- Bio-Identicals: Sorting Myths from Facts
- FDA's Strategic Plan: Charting Our Course for the Future
- Ensuring the Safety of Imported Products: Q & A with Deborah Ralston
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