Dietary Supplements Flashcards
A dietary supplement it taken how?
By mouth
A dietary substance contains what?
Dietary ingredient
A dietary supplement is intended to do what?
Supplement the diet
When would a dietary substance be considered unapproved or illegal?
When it claims to prevent or cure a specific disease or condition
A dietary supplement can be labeled with what?
General use not specific condition
What verbal statement must be on a dietary supplement label?
This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease.
Medical foods represent treatment for what?
Specific disease states
A medical food is only available how?
By a prescription of a practitioner
Dietary substances are neither ___ or _____
Drugs nor foods
What placed health foods food supplements and herbal products into a class different from prescription and nonprescription drugs?
Dietary Supplement Health a Education Act (DSHEA)
Dietary products can be marketed without proving what?
Efficacy
Dietary supplements currently on the market do not have to be proven what?
Sade
GMP does not provide specific guidelines for tests for herbal products that test for what?
Identity purity strength and composition
Who is responsible for determining the dietary supplements contents?
The manufacturer
When does an herb get admitted into the official compendium?
Must have FDA approved use or DI panel recognized use.
