Dietary Supplements

Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are.
Dietary supplements. A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement the diet when taken by mouth as a pill capsule tablet or liquid. Sometimes the ingredients in dietary supplements are added to foods including drinks. The class of nutrient compounds includes vitamins minerals fiber fatty acids and.
They might contain vitamins minerals fiber amino acids herbs or other plants or enzymes. The fda is the federal agency that oversees both supplements and medicines but the fda regulations for dietary supplements are different from those for prescription or over the. A supplement can provide nutrients either extracted from food sources or synthetic individually or in combination in order to increase the quantity of their consumption.
Dietary supplements come in the form of pills capsules powders gel tabs extracts or liquids. Under the dietary supplement health and education act of 1994 dshea. They are not medicines and are not intended to treat diagnose mitigate prevent or cure diseases.
A doctor s prescription is not needed to buy dietary supplements.