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Dietary supplements : a framework for evaluating safety
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"The sale of supplements has been steadily increasing - all together, the various types of dietary supplements now bring in more than $18 million a year. Given these factors, what kind of informati...
"The sale of supplements has been steadily increasing - all together, the various types of dietary supplements now bring in more than $18 million a year. Given these factors, what kind of information can the Food and Drug Administration use to effectively regulate dietary supplements? Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety provides an outline for evaluating dietary supplement safety and protecting the health of consumers."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Life Sciences ; Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0309531888, 9780309531887, 9780309091107, 0309091101, 9786610179305, 1280179309
- OCLC
- ocm57734559, ocm56591337, ocm70773895, ocn923273837
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Approaches used by others and existing safety frameworks -- The framework -- Categories of scientific evidence--human information and data -- Categories of scientific evidence--animal data -- Categories of scientific evidence--information about related substances -- Categories of scientific evidence--in vitro data -- Interactions -- Vulnerable groups and prevalence of use -- Scientific principles for integrating and evaluating the available data -- Applying the framework: case studies using the prototype safety monographs -- Factors influencing use of the safety framework -- Findings and recommendations
Subjects
- United States. Food and Drug Administration.
- Dietary supplements -- Evaluation.
- Dietary supplements -- Toxicology.
- Dietary Supplements -- standards -- United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- Dietary Supplements -- adverse effects -- United States.
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- Safety -- United States.
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- Government Regulation -- United States.
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- Product Surveillance, Postmarketing -- methods -- United States.
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