DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS VS CONSUMER SAFETY

Quality assurance and safety of herbal dietary supplements.

Since the U.S. Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994, use of herbal products has been growing rapidly worldwide. To ensure consumer health protection, the quality and safety of herbal plants, particularly those used for dietary supplement preparations, must be determined. To date, toxicological data on the identification of genotoxic and tumorigenic ing...

Dietary supplements.

For the athlete training hard, nutritional supplements are often seen as promoting adaptations to training, allowing more consistent and intensive training by promoting recovery between training sessions, reducing interruptions to training because of illness or injury, and enhancing competitive performance. Surveys show that the prevalence of supplement use is widespread among sportsmen and wom...

Dietary supplements for osteoarthritis.

A large number of dietary supplements are promoted to patients with osteoarthritis and as many as one third of those patients have used a supplement to treat their condition. Glucosamine-containing supplements are among the most commonly used products for osteoarthritis. Although the evidence is not entirely consistent, most research suggests that glucosamine sulfate can improve symptoms of pai...

Why dietary supplements?

Botanicals in Dietary Supplements

1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, 447 Sri Ayudhya Road, Rajathevi District, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2 Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstraße 1, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany 3 Clinical Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmacy Practice, PAHO/WHOCollaborating Centre for TraditionalMedicine, College o...