Comparison between the American and the European Systems of Monitoring Adverse Effects of Dietary Supplements and Their Usefulness on the Polish Market

Kacper Wróbel (), Beata Zastawna, Anna Justyna Milewska, Michał Marczak and Remigiusz Kozłowski
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Kacper Wróbel: Department of Management and Logistics in Healthcare, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland
Beata Zastawna: Department of Management and Logistics in Healthcare, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland
Anna Justyna Milewska: Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland
Michał Marczak: Department of Management and Logistics in Healthcare, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland
Remigiusz Kozłowski: Centre for Security Technologies in Logistics, Faculty of Management, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: Many Polish patients do not inform physicians about supplements they use in addition to prescribed medicines. This may be because they consider dietary supplements as being rather natural products that cannot cause health problems. Although dietary supplements may produce side effects, Poland’s food safety system and medical statistics do not recognise the necessity of reporting such cases. However, a different approach is observed in France and the United States where adverse effects of food supplements as well as drugs are reported. The aim of this study was to determine the need for creating in Poland a general model of a register monitoring dietary supplements and their adverse effects. In order to achieve this goal, a detailed comparison between the American and European monitoring systems was made. It showed the relationship between negative symptoms caused by specific components in supplements and t profiles of patients who reported side effects. Additionally, it was found that there is a real risk associated with side effects caused by dietary supplements. Therefore, it necessary to establish in Poland a special system for recording such cases as it should be beneficial to patients, including polypragmatic patients.

Keywords: dietary supplements; side effects; CAERS; EudraVigilance; Nutrivigilance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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