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Vitamin D supplement products: medication use error.
MedWatch Safety Alert. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; June 15, 2010.

This announcement cautions providers and parents about the potential for giving infants an overdose of vitamin D and describes how to avoid such errors.

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