There could be more harmful things than mint leaves growing in your vitamins and supplements. Photo: Shutterstock.
Vitamin and supplement lovers, beware. Pharmavite, the manufacturer of the popular vitamin brand Nature Made, just recalled several of the company’s products due to potential salmonella and staph contamination. Those definitely aren’t the types of things you’d like supplemented in your diet.
These are the main products being recalled:
However, Nature Made has also recalled the following products below. These products were not contaminated, and it is unknown why they are being recalled. Perhaps the company is just using an abundance of caution.
Anyone who purchased any of these products can receive a full refund for returning the product in question to the retailer. Be sure to check products for the lot number that is listed next to the expiration date on the bottle. Avoiding exposure to these vitamins could save you from a nasty bout of salmonella, so be sure to double check your bottle and spread the word with friends.