Dietary supplements
Subtitle: a framework for evaluating safety
By: Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Life Sciences.
Contributors: Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: United States. -- Food and Drug Administration.; Dietary supplements -- Evaluation.; Dietary supplements -- Toxicology.; Dietary Supplements -- standards -- United States.; Safety -- United States.; Government Regulation -- United States.; Product Surveillance, Postmarketing -- methods -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaches used by others and existing safety frameworks; title: The framework; title: Categories of scientific evidence; title: human information and data; title: Categories of scientific evidence; title: animal data; title: Categories of scientific evidence; title: information about related substances; title: Categories of scientific evidence; title: in vitro data; title: Interactions; title: Vulnerable groups and prevalence of use; title: Scientific principles for integrating and evaluating the available data; title: Applying the framework: case studies using the prototype safety monographs; title: Factors influencing use of the safety framework; title: Findings and recommendations.