The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health added more than 6,000 dietary supplement labels to its Dietary Supplement Label Database(DSLD), based on data submitted by industry and collected through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
 
The update, which accounts for the addition of more than 6,000 labels, comes on the heels of a major redesign of the database which took place in July 2021, in which the agency updated the site to make its contents easier to navigate.
 
The database provides the public with free current and historical label information from dietary supplements marketed in the U.S. It was first launched in 2013 with about 17,000 labels, and today, it carries 136,209 labels. More than 85,000 of those products are currently being sold in the U.S.
 
The resource now features more streamlined search functions, with the ability to customize results. Users can now search for products by ingredient, form, brand, intended consumer group, and a wide range of other options, thanks to an enhanced categorization system.
 
Currently, products are listed as intended for one of four target groups: all adults and children 4 years and above; children 1-4 years; pregnant and lactating; and infants. There are also a total of ten supplement forms (i.e., delivery platforms), and 10 product types (single vitamin/mineral, multi-vitamin and mineral, mineral, vitamin, omega-3 and other fatty acid, amino acid/protein, botanicals with nutrients, non-nutrient/non-botanical, botanical, or other combination) by which all labels are categorized.