The Quality and Safety of Foods: Food Supplements

Food supplements are very complex products. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
has settled good manufacturing practices for food supplements to help secure their character,
stability, purity and they are very cautious about the composition in order to ensure the right
amount of ingredients. To prevent any flaws the FDA constantly performs checks on the entities
that manufacture these products.
More over, there are many private institutes that offer quality testing in order to
approve and then make sure these products can end up on shops shelves. The seals of
approval guarantee the following properties: appropriate manufacturing conditions, all
ingredients are present on the label and the fact that high quantities of harmful substances
were not used.
But be aware that these seals of approval do not certify that the product is harmless or
efficient.