PMDSS is designed to help people search for academic journal articles related to dietary supplement literature.
PubMed provides access to citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life science academic journals.
In the early 1970s the FDA tried to restrict the definition of dietary supplements to essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
[4] DSHEA mandated the establishment of the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health.
The IBIDS database was retired in 2010 and the PMDSS was launched to continue the ODS mission to disseminate dietary supplement-related research results.