Dietary Supplements

Under U.S. law, a dietary supplement is any product that is intended to supplement the diet and contains any of the following dietary ingredients: vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals (excluding tobacco), amino acids, dietary substances which increase the total dietary intake, concentrates, metabolites, constituents, extracts, or any combination of these.

They must also be intended for ingestion in oral form (e.g. pill, capsule, tablet, powder, liquid, etc.), and cannot represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet. They must also be clearly labeled as a "dietary supplement."

Unfortunately, many dietary supplements cause harm, not good – not just harm in terms of wasted money, but in pain. Some of the dietary supplements on the market are defective, impure, or have dangerously unpredictable health effects, including heart attacks, strokes, and even sudden death.

If you have suffered as a result of taking dietary supplements, please contact a dietary supplements lawyer as soon as possible. A specialist dietary supplements attorney can discover if you are entitled to restitution from the dietary supplements' makers, and can file a dietary supplements lawsuit on your behalf to obtain it.