Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements

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This committee will provide a framework for evaluating dietary supplement ingredients. The proposed framework will focus on ingredients in dietary supplements marketed in the United States. The committee will (1) develop a proposed framework for categorizing and prioritizing dietary supplement ingredients based on safety issues, (2) describe a process for developing a system of scientific reviews with specifications for evaluating the safety of dietary supplement ingredients, and (3) develop at least six scientific reviews as prototypes for the system. The framework will include a methodology to review data with regard to the safety of dietary supplement ingredients, taking into consideration methods other expert bodies have used to categorize and review supplement safety and efficacy issues.

Two reports will be issued: (1) the proposed framework expected during the first year after the project start (see National Academies Press) and (2) a final framework report along with prototype monographs.

Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety

Report
Prototype Monographs (PDF)

Project Meetings
	Release of Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements	Apr 1, 2004

Related Reports
		Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety Apr 1, 2004


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