Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements

Dietary supplements are well regulated. Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can and do take action when necessary to police the market place. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education act of 1994 gave the U.S. FDA the power to ensure dietary supplements are safe, properly labeled and that the claims they make substantiated. And because of DSHEA, a new regulation addressing good manufacturing practices (GMPs) for dietary supplements that ensures their quality and purity will soon be issued.

Dietary supplements have a great safety record, especially compared with other consumer goods, such as drugs and even other foods.

Dietary supplements do work, and every week more and more scientific research upholds this fact.