Well here is an interesting article. Supplements have done no harm when taken as suggested. The same cannot be said for many allopathic means. Side effects are all too common even at correct doses. This report is rife with the statistics. I always laugh when watching a commercial for a new drug that then lists all these side effects in that really fast voice over a picture of a happy smiling family. Many are actually worse than what you take the medication for. Please consult your doctor if you experience an erection lasting longer than four hours!!!!
2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison
Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report
ALVIN C. BRONSTEIN, M.D., DANIEL A. SPYKER, PH.D., M.D., LOUIS R. CANTILENA, JR, M.D., PH.D., JODY L. GREEN, PH.D., BARRY H. RUMACK, M.D., and SANDRA L. GIFFIN, RN, BSN, MS
http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf(Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.)
Getting back to Codex for a moment.....the march to control everything we eat has hit a stumbling block...thank God.
http://www.anhcampaign.org/news/proposed-dose-limits-on-vitamin-supplements-in-europe-found-to-be-scientifically-flawedWish this was not in conspiracy, although one does exist to keep humans nutritionally illiterate so perhaps this is wholly appropriate.