Food Supplements Hazard Identification

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Scientific Committee, European Food Safety Authority	Botanicals and Botanical Preparations Widely Used as Food Supplements and Related Products: Coherent and Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Consumer Information Approaches Discussion paper adopted on June 23, 2004 that addresses issues related to risk assessment and consumer information on botanicals in food supplements. Includes discussion of quality and safety issues, related EC legislation, and potential future activities related to these products. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004	Sep 22, 2004
	Elliott, Victoria Stagg	Code Green: Seeing the Side Effects of Alternative Supplements This report discusses side effects of herbal supplements as well as labeling and diagnosis issues. It also includes, under "Additional information," the reasons for taking, adverse reactions, and other drug conflictions of ephedra/ma huang, St. John's Wort, kava kava, yohimbine, and ginkgo biloba. (more) Publication Date: Monday, March 5, 2001	Aug 15, 2002
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Consumer Advice Gives answers to consumers for common questions regarding foodborne illness, food preparation, food away from home, food storage, seafood, produce and fruit juice, dietary supplements, cosmetics, nutrition and weight loss, food labeling, and more. (more)	May 29, 2002
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration/Research Triangle Institute	Dietary Supplement Sales Database (DSPD) A survey conducted by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) under contract with FDA. The Access database contains labeling and catalogue information of approximately 3,000 dietary supplement products sold in the United States. The database includes information such as the product's name, the name and address of the manufacturer or distributor, the product's ingredients, and claims about the product. Claims may be about the health benefits or nutrient content of the product or may be nutritional support statements. Thus, the database provides information on the range of products available for sale in the United States, where these products are sold, what they contain, and what claims are being made about these products. Also available are the final report of the project, which includes information on the procedures used and a description of the database, and a supplement to the final report, which includes detailed records from the data collection process. (more) Publication Month: October 1999	Aug 16, 2002
	Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	EAFUS: A Food Additive Database This database of substances is referred to as "Everything" Added to Food in the United States (EAFUS). For each substance, information is provided about the status of toxicology information available in the Priority-based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA) database, the PAFA database number of the Food Additive Safety Profile volume containing information about the substance, the name of the substance as recognized by CFSAN, the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry Number or other code number of the substance, and the regulation numbers in Title 21 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations where the chemical appears. (more)	Jun 17, 2002
	Powers, Michael E.	Ephedra and Its Application to Sport Performance: Another Concern for the Athletic Trainer? Review of literature found in MEDLINE and SPORT Discus from 1970-2000 regarding the use of ephedra as an ergogenic supplement and its side effects. The paper examines evidence of the benefits and risks associated with this supplement. (more) Publication Month: December 2001	Sep 24, 2003
	Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences	Food Chemicals Codex Book that discusses the identification, strength, and purity of chemicals that are added to or used as foods. This page gives a history of the Food Chemicals Codex project and provides purchasing information for this book and its supplements. (more) Publication Year: 2003	Jan 13, 2003
	Health Canada	Health Canada is Advising Consumers Not to Use Any Products Containing Kava Advisory from Health Canada regarding products that contain the herbal ingredient kava in response to recent reports of liver toxicity related to use of kava products in Europe. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2002	Jun 13, 2002
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Kava-Containing Dietary Supplements May Be Associated With Severe Liver Injury FDA consumer advisory regarding the potential risk of severe liver injury associated with the use of kava-containing dietary supplements. (more) Publication Date: Monday, March 25, 2002	Jun 13, 2002
	California Department of Health Services	State Health Director Warns Consumers About Prescription Drugs in Herbal Products Consumer warning to stop using the dietary supplements PC SPES and SPES capsules because they contain undeclared prescription drugs. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, February 7, 2002	Jun 13, 2002
	Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment	Statement on the Mutagenicity of Trivalent Chromium and Chromium Picolinate Statement regarding the mutagenicity of trivalent chromium, particularly chromium picolinate. Publication Month: December 2004	Dec 13, 2004
	Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Summary of Evaluations Performed by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA 1956-2001) (First through fifty-seventh meetings): Internet Edition Searchable collection of summaries of evaluations performed on the safety of additives, contaminants, and veterinary drug residues. (more) Publication Year: 2001	Aug 31, 2001

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