Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies ex-officio member LegitScript, who promotes safety and transparency for online pharmacies and health products, has introduced a new feature (in beta): LegitScript Healthcare Product Search, adding to its existing “Check Online Pharmacy Legitimacy” and “Report a Rogue Internet Pharmacy” tools.
From LegitScript’s blog:
“This is the world’s first and only global database (as far as we know!) that tells you whether dietary supplements or other healthcare products are known to have any safety problems. You can find out whether a product is known to contain toxins or active pharmaceutical ingredients, is marketed with unsupportable claims, or has some other problem suggesting a risk to your or your animal’s health.
“Unlike prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, which must be approved for sale by each country’s drug safety authority as safe and effective, dietary supplements are typically subject to less regulation and scrutiny. It can be difficult to know if they are safe or effective. While many supplements have no known problems, thousands of others have been tested or reviewed by some reliable authority – not only the US FDA, but also its counterparts in countries ranging from Canada and EU countries to Singapore or Australia – and found to either contain dangerous ingredients or inappropriately imply safety or medical effectiveness.”