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Trace Element and Supplement Safety

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Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals

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Safety evaluation of the essential nutrients is undergoing rapid development and it may become standardized (1–7). This progress occurs with a background knowledge that among the nutrients the trace elements pose particularly difficult challenges to find reasonable safety limits that will protect from toxicity but also allow the benefits of supplements. The difficulty with trace elements relates to both relatively narrow margins of safety and extensive interactions among them and with other substances.

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    John D. Bogden PhD

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    Leslie M. Klevay MD, SD in Hyg

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Hathcock, J.N. (2000). Trace Element and Supplement Safety. In: Bogden, J.D., Klevay, L.M. (eds) Clinical Nutrition of the Essential Trace Elements and Minerals. Nutrition ◊ and ◊ Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-040-7_7

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