Dietary supplement poisoning every 24 minutes in the US
275,000 calls concerning supplements were made to poison centres between 2002 and 2012
New figures reveal that a call is made to US poison control centres about dietary supplements every 24 minutes. The number of calls about dietary supplements that these centres receive has increased by 49% between 2005 and 2012, reaching 275,000 between 2002 and 2012, according to researchers at the Central Ohio Poison Center.