Vitamins - The FDA, Vitamins, and the Dietary Supplement Industry

Vitamins: What are they and what do they do? 

Vitamins are organic compounds that are needed in small quantities to sustain life. Most vitamins need to come from food.

The FDA, Vitamins, and the Dietary Supplement Industry,

A look at the FDA and regulation of vitamins in the United States is revealing for the pharmacist. Patients and even pharmacists may assume that some governmental agency has vast regulatory powers to control advertising and marketing of vitamins and other dietary supplements, but this is clearly not the case.