Every dataset behind a Scan Dose verdict, with the upstream organization, refresh cadence, and current ingestion status. See methodology for how these sources combine into a score; see about our data for the longer-form explanation.
How sources become consumer-visible answers
Scan Dose runs an AI-assisted clinical review engine over every primary source listed below. Auto-extracted candidate interactions are graded against published mechanism + evidence weight + severity tiers before they enter the consumer corpus. We never publish raw model output as fact.
FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (CAERS) supplement-tagged events, used for safety-signal flagging on every scan.
Active and historical FDA enforcement actions filtered to dietary supplements.
FDA list of supplements found to contain undisclosed pharmaceutical ingredients (e.g. weight-loss with sibutramine, sex-enhancement with sildenafil).
Per-ingredient evidence summaries with consumer + health-professional variants. Backbone of the dense-search corpus for general supplement questions.
Practitioner-grade summaries for complementary and integrative supplements, used for evidence-grade questions.
Citation lookup for every published claim. Scan Dose only cites PMIDs the system can verify against the live PubMed API.
Nutrient composition reference for whole-food alternatives surfaced alongside supplement recommendations.
Source of truth for the product catalog: labels, ingredients, manufacturers. We layer scoring + safety signals on top.
Subset of high-severity interactions verified against NatMed Pro's editorial corpus. Full license negotiation in progress.
FDA-managed structured product label database for prescription and OTC drugs. Used to verify prescribing-information facts before any drug-supplement interaction assertion.
Auto-extracted supplement-drug interaction candidates from biomedical literature. Each candidate must pass our AI-assisted clinical review engine (pharmacist-style structured grading on mechanism, evidence weight, and severity) before promotion into the published interactions corpus consumers see.
Cross-jurisdictional safety + sport-banned-substance signals layered on top of FDA-only data for international travelers and competitive athletes.
Scan Dose is recruiting a clinical advisory board (one practicing pharmacist, one functional-medicine MD, one registered dietitian) to review interaction-severity classifications quarterly. Roster will be published here once formalized. Review in progress.
Snapshot date: 2026-05-03. Counts refresh on deploy. Discrepancies? Email hello@scandose.com.