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Additional Resources

Aetna InteliHealth (featuring Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information)

Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (warnings and safety information on dietary supplements)

Consumer Lab (identifies the best quality health and nutrition products through independent testing)

The Dietary Supplement (newsletter that features current information on dietary supplements)

Food and Nutrition Information Center (general information on vitamins and minerals)

Food Safety Risk Analysis Clearinghouse (includes news and press releases, literature reviews, and other sources of information about dietary supplements)

Healthnotes (provides easy-to-use health and lifestyle information)

National Institute of Health (office of dietary supplements)

Quest Health Library (features information on dietary supplements and health conditions)

Supplement Watch (supplement decisions made easy)

University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter Guide to Dietary Supplements

 

Federal Agencies

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Office of Consumer Affairs, HFE-88 Rockville, MD 20857
1-800-FDA-4010 or (202) 205-4314.
Web site: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/supplmnt.html

Federal Trade Commission
Public Reference Branch
Room 130 Washington DC 20580
Web site: http://www.ftc.gov/

National Institute on Aging (NIA)
NIA Information Center
P.O. Box 8057 Gaithersberg, MD 20898-8057
1-800-222-2225 TTY: 1-800-222-4225
Web site: http://www.nia.nih.gov/

Office of Dietary Supplements
Web site: http://ods.od.nih.gov/

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database of medical journals: http://odp.od.nih.gov/ods/databases/ibids.html Health Professional Organizations

American Dietetic Association
216 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60606-6995
1-800-366-1655 (recorded message)
1-900-225-5267 (to talk to a registered dietitian)
Web site: http://www.eatright.org/

 

Expert advice

Medical doctors and other health care professionals such as registered dietitians, pharmacists and your university extension service are good sources of information about dietary supplements.