By Mike Montemarano, Associate Editor09.15.22
Seventeen of 30 dietary supplement products purchased from Amazon.com that make claims related to immune health had inaccurate labels based on their Supplement Facts panels, 13 were misbranded, and nine had additional components detected but not claimed on the label, according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.
“Since December 2020, Amazon has been requiring sellers to provide outlined quality control documentation and a certificate of analysis (testing results) for supplements sold on their platform. These new requirements could help ensure products are less risky and not adulterated,” the authors of the study noted.
In order to capture a picture of how well supplements are meeting label specifications, the authors of the study searched the keyword “immune” in “all departments” and then sorted results by “featured.” They selected the first 30 dietary supplement products that appeared, and required the products to have four or more stars in order to be eligible and selected for analysis.
“Since December 2020, Amazon has been requiring sellers to provide outlined quality control documentation and a certificate of analysis (testing results) for supplements sold on their platform. These new requirements could help ensure products are less risky and not adulterated,” the authors of the study noted.
In order to capture a picture of how well supplements are meeting label specifications, the authors of the study searched the keyword “immune” in “all departments” and then sorted results by “featured.” They selected the first 30 dietary supplement products that appeared, and required the products to have four or more stars in order to be eligible and selected for analysis.
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