He was admitted to East Surrey Hospital last year in May and died ten days later

An 89-year-old retired businessman died from an “overdose” of Vitamin D supplements that did not warn about the risks of excessive intake.

David Mitchener from Oxted, Surrey, reportedly had fatally high levels of Vitamin D when he was brought to the East Surrey Hospital last year in May and was suffering from hypercalcaemia – a build-up of calcium in the body associated with taking too much vitamin D.

He died ten days later.

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I have a vague memory of hearing/reading/looking it up one time, but there was a law that was passed that changed the what triggers the USA’s Food and Drug Administration ability to police things like… umm… food and drugs. It made it so that the FDA couldn’t proactively/preemptively look into the supplements to check for quality, quantity of ingredients, adulterants, and efficacy. The bill was put forth by some political creature from Oklahoma.