Reassuring: No Deaths from Vitamin Supplements. Absolutely None.
During my resent research, I found this press release and report about the safety of minerals and vitamin supplements.
31 Years of Supplement Safety Once Again Confirmed by America’s Largest Database
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor
(OMNS Jan 14, 2015) There were no deaths whatsoever from vitamins in the year 2013. The 31st annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, vitamin B-6, any other B-vitamin, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or any vitamin at all.
Zero deaths from vitamins. Want to bet this will never be on the evening news?
Prescription Meds Don’t Fare So Well
I wish prescription medications could claim the same excellent safety record as vitamins. Alas, in an average year, there are at least 106,000 deaths and over 450,000 adverse events reported due to prescription drugs