Zero Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 5, 2011

Zero Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety Yet Again

(OMNS Jan 5, 2011) There was not even one death caused by a dietary

supplement in 2009, according to the most recent information collected by the

U.S. National Poison Data System.

The new 200-page annual report of the American Association of Poison

Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero

deaths

from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero

deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid, herb,

or dietary mineral supplement.

Two people died from non-nutritional mineral poisoning, one from a sodium

salt and one from an iron salt or iron. On page 1139, the AAPCC report

specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional

supplement. One other person is alleged to have died from an " Unknown Dietary

Supplement or Homeopathic Agent. " This claim remains speculative, as no

verification information was provided.

60 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison

Data System, **one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in

existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types

of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and

situational awareness tracking.**

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even

if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes

155,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of nearly 57 billion doses

annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral

tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of

nutritional

supplements is all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so **dangerous,** as the FDA and

news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL.

2009 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers'

National Poison Data System (NPDS): 27th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology

(2010). 48, 979-1178. The full text article is available for free download

at _http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2009%20AR.pdf_

(http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2009%20AR.pdf)

The data mentioned above are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1138-1148.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control

Centers from 1983-2009 free of charge at

_http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/NPDSAnnualReports.aspx_

(http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/NPDSAnnualReports.aspx)

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