CAM alert: Ingredient lists ‘cannot be trusted’
Record the medicine's brand name, warns clinical pharmacist, as relying on its ingredients list is 'no guarantee' of accuracy
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Complementary medicine ingredient lists cannot be trusted when doctors are trying to identify potential drug interactions, a prominent clinical pharmacist has warned.
Even products with the same active ingredient can vary between brands, says Adjunct Associate Professor Geraldine Moses, a consultant at Mater Health Services in Brisbane.