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Per DSHEA, dietary supplements are consumed orally, and are mainly defined by what they are not: conventional foods (including [[meal replacement]]s), [[medical food]]s, [[preservative]]s or [[pharmaceutical drugs]]. Products intended for use as a [[nasal spray]], or [[Topical medication|topically]], as a lotion applied to the skin, do not qualify. FDA-approved drugs cannot be ingredients in dietary supplements. Supplement products are or contain [[vitamins]], [[Mineral (nutrient)|nutritionally essential minerals]], [[amino acid]]s, [[essential fatty acid]]s and non-nutrient substances extracted from [[plant]]s or [[animal]]s or [[Fungus|fungi]] or [[bacteria]], or in the instance of [[probiotic]]s, are live bacteria. Dietary supplement ingredients may also be synthetic copies of naturally occurring substances (for example: [[melatonin]]). All products with these ingredients are required to be labeled as dietary supplements. Like foods and unlike drugs, no government approval is required to make or sell dietary supplements; the manufacturer confirms the safety of dietary supplements but the government does not; and rather than requiring [[Risk–benefit ratio|risk–benefit analysis]] to prove that the product can be sold like a drug, such assessment is only used by the FDA to decide that a dietary supplement is unsafe and should be removed from market.

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