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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 28, 2011
No Deaths from Vitamins
America's Largest Database Confirms
Supplement Safety
(OMNS, Dec 28, 2011) There was not
even one death caused by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to
the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison
Data System.
The new 203-page annual report of
the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online
at
http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf,
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 or dietary mineral supplement.
Three people died from
non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and
one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report
specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a
nutritional supplement.
Fifty-seven poison centers provide
coast-to-coast data for the 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."
Well 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
165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion
doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one
single vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably
higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more
remarkable.
Over 60 billion doses of
vitamin and mineral supplements per year in the USA, and not a
single fatality. Not one.
If vitamin and mineral 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, Dart RC. 2010 Annual Report of the
American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data
System (NPDS): 28th Annual Report. The full text article is
available for free download at
http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf
The data mentioned above are found
in Table 22B. Mineral data on page 131; vitamin data on pages
137-139 .
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