Wednesday, October 24, 2007

New database for dietary supplements

The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on
dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplements Labels Database
http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov includes information from the
labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace,
including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids,
and other specialty supplements.

The database is designed to help both the general public and health care
providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products,
including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active
ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose,
label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label
information.

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