Poison Control Stats Confirm Safety of Supplements

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 14, 2009

No Deaths From Vitamins or Minerals

Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety

(OMNS, October 14, 2009) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin

or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics

available from the U.S. National Poison Data System. The 132-page annual report

of

the American Association of Poison Control Centers published in the

journal Clinical Toxicology shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero

deaths

from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and

zero deaths from any other vitamin. (1)

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2007 from any dietary mineral

supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, chromium, zinc,

colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. There was one

death from chronic overdose of magnesium hydroxide, commonly known as the

laxative/antacid milk of magnesia, and it was inappropriately listed in the

" dietary supplement " reporting category. Nutritional supplements do not

contain magnesium hydroxide.

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even

if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes

154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses

annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet,

the numbers are considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional

supplements is all the more remarkable.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison

Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical

toxicologists. In 2007, NPDS reported 1,597 fatalities from drugs and other

ingested

materials. Not one death was due to a vitamin or dietary mineral supplement.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so " dangerous, " as the FDA and

the news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

References:

(1) Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Heard

SE; American Association of Poison Control Centers. 2007 Annual Report of

the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data

System (NPDS): 25th Annual Report. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2008

Dec;46(10):927-1057. Full text article available for free download at

_http://www.aapcc.org/DNN/Portals/0/NPDS%20reports/2008%20AAPCC%20Annual%20Repor\

t.pdf_

(http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=24 & e=MTc1Njc= & l=-http--ww\

w.aapcc.o

rg/DNN/Portals/0/NPDS%20reports/2008%20AAPCC%20Annual%20Report.pdf)

Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1027-1028. Minerals

are in the same table, page 1024.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control

Centers from 1983-2007 free of charge at:

_http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDS/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx_

(http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=24 & e=MTc1Njc= & l=-http--ww\

w.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDS/AnnualReports/tabi

d/125/Default.aspx) The " Vitamin " category is usually near the very end

of the report.

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