NIH says it hopes the database will benefit a wide range of people, including consumers, researchers, and healthcare providers.
A new, public Dietary Supplement Label Database launched last week by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) makes information freely available on approximately 17,000 dietary supplement finished products sold in the U.S. market. NIH says it hopes the database will benefit a wide range of people, including consumers, researchers, and healthcare providers.
The database not only includes information listed on each product’s Supplement Facts panel, which dietary supplements are required to display; it also contains other information such as directions for use, health-related claims, and warning statements. Website visitors can search results by ingredient, product, or brand name.
NIH plans to update the database frequently, as product labels often change and as new products are added or old products are removed from the marketplace. “The Dietary Supplement Label Database will be updated regularly to incorporate most of the more than 55,000 dietary supplement products in the U.S. marketplace,” said Steven Phillips, MD, director of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Division of Specialized Information Services, in a press release. NLM and NIH’s Office of Dietary Supplements collaborated on the database.
The database also offers an app, located at https://myds.nih.gov.
The Nutritional Outlook Podcast Episode 33: Keeping up with contract manufacturing
July 26th 2024Nutritional Outlook talks to Lauren Samot, commercial innovation leader, and Blayney McEneaney, sales executive at Vitaquest International, about trends within the contract manufacturing space, and the ways in which contract manufacturers like Vitaquest keep up with the market and differentiate themselves from the competition.