FDA-CFSAN Dietary Supplements Warnings and Safety Information

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FDA/CFSAN Dietary Supplements: Warnings and Safety Information-

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U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition

Dietary Supplements

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Overview

 

Warnings and Safety Information

 

Adverse Event Reporting

 

Announcements & Meetings

 

General Information

 

Industry Information & Regulations

 

Questions & Answers

 

Other Sources of Information

Warnings and Safety Information

 

Alerts | Additional Safety Information | Reporting Problems

 

 

Alerts

 

a.. Anthrax

a.. Dietary Supplements Claiming to Prevent or Treat Anthrax November

7, 2001

b.. Aristolochic Acid

a.. FDA Concerned About Botanical Products, Including Dietary

Supplements, Containing Aristolochic Acid April 11, 2001

c.. Comfrey

a.. FDA Advises Dietary Supplement Manufacturers to Remove Comfrey

Products From the Market July 6, 2001

d.. Ephedrine Alkaloids

a.. see Consolidated Information on Ephedrine Alkaloids

e.. LipoKinetix: FDA Warns About Weight Loss Product

FDA alerts consumers and health care professionals about LipoKinetix, a

dietary supplement weight loss product. This product has been implicated in a

number of serious adverse reactions related to several cases of liver injury.

a.. FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use the Dietary Supplement LipoKinetix

November 19, 2001

b.. Letter to Health Care Professionals on Hazardous Dietary

Supplement LipoKinetix November 19, 2001

c.. Letter to Distributor on Hazardous Dietary Supplement LipoKinetix

November 19, 2001

f.. St. John's Wort and Indinavir

a.. FDA Public Health Advisory: Risk of Drug Interactions with St.

John's Wort and Indinavir and Other Drugs February 10, 2000

g.. Tiractricol

a.. FDA Warns Consumers Against Consuming Dietary Supplements

Containing Tiractricol November 21, 2000

h.. Triax Metabolic Accelerator

a.. FDA Warns Against Consuming Triax Metabolic Accelerator November

11, 1999

 

i.. Other FDA Alerts

a.. FDA Recalls and Safety Alerts

b.. FDA Import Alerts and Import Detention Reports

 

 

Additional Safety Information

 

a.. Products Consumers Inquire About:

Ephedra or Ephedrine; DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone); Melatonin; Dieter's

Teas; L-Tryptophan; Folic Acid; Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB); Gamma

Butyrolactone (GBL); and 1,4 Butanediol (BD)

b.. MedWatch New Safety Information Summaries:

2000 / 1999 / 1998 / 1997 / 1996

c.. Archived Information: FDA Warning Statements Issued from 1997 to

January 1999

d.. Article on Herbal Products: Dangerous Combinations

e.. Illnesses and Injuries Associated With the Use of Selected Dietary

Supplements (1993)

f.. Buying Medicines and Medical Products Online

g.. Other Sources of Safety Information (such as NIH, USDA, etc.)

 

 

Reporting Problems

 

a.. Adverse Event Reporting

 

b.. Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet

 

c.. MedWatch

 

 

 

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