Dietary Supplement

Dietary supplement means to provide nutrients (vitamins, minerals, fatty acids or amino acids) that are deficient in a person's diet. Dietary supplement may incorporate herbal supplements which provide resistance to certain diseases or health conditions.

A dietary supplement comprises one or more of the following dietary ingredients:

• vitamin
• mineral
• herb or any other plant (excluding tobacco)
• amino acid
• an appetizer

Moreover a dietary supplement should be:

• Ingested in pill, capsule, tablet, powder or liquid form
• not be used as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet
• labeled as a "dietary supplement"

If a dietary supplement claims to offer medical remedies, it would be treated as an unauthorized new drug and in violation of the applicable rules and regulations.

The Dietary Food Supplements are required to be safe in quantity as well as in terms of quality. Some vitamins are productive in small quantities but might be toxic in large quantities. The supplements that have been proven to be safe and useful may be sold without prescription.

In Russia Biologically Active Dietary Supplements (BADs) claims:

Moreover a dietary supplement should be:

• BADSs are foodstuffs with clinically proven effectiveness
• BADSs are recommended for prophylactics
• BADs can be included for the prevention of pharmaceutical therapy's side effects and for the achievement of complete remission
• They are treated as preventive medicines against chronic diseases.