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NUTRIVIGILANCE: A NEW ACTIVITY IN THE FIELD OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS

CLAUDIU MORGOVAN 1,2#, STELIANA GHIBU 3*, ANCA MARIA JUNCAN 2#, LUCA LIVIU RUS 2#, ANCA BUTUCĂ 2, LOREDANA VONICA 2, ANDREI MUNTEAN 2, LIANA MOŞ 4, FELICIA GLIGOR 2, NELI-KINGA OLAH 1

1.“Vasile Goldiş” Western University, Faculty of Pharmacy, 86 Liviu Rebreanu Street, Arad, Romania
2.“Lucian Blaga” University, Faculty of Medicine, Preclinical Department, 2A Lucian Blaga Street, Sibiu, Romania
3.“Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Pathophysiology, 8 Victor Babeş Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
4.“Vasile Goldiş” Western University, Faculty of Medicine, 86 Liviu Rebreanu Street, Arad, Romania

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Dietary supplements (DS) used to improve the quality of life, can produce adverse events, either as a result of inappropriate consumption, or as the intrinsic properties of active compounds, either as drug-dietary supplement interactions or due to contaminations or adulterations. The European legislation, including the Romanian legislation doesn’t refer to all types of DS, and even more it doesn’t contain any regulations regarding detecting, monitoring or reporting adverse events. In the last years, some countries (USA, France, Czech Republic) started the nutrivigilance, a scientific support in order to identify the possible adverse effects of DS and to enhance consumer safety, necessary for detection, understanding and prevention of adverse events related to the use of DS, a major public health risk, which can lead to an inappropriate practice and may eventually be harmful to patients’ lives. This study highlights the necessity to introduce the nutrivigilance as a habitual practice and activity of all authorities and actors from the Romanian dietary supplements’ market, due the increase of dietary supplements consumption and their risks for the people’s health.