Editing Vitamin E (section)

==== Cancer health claims ====
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration initiated a process of reviewing and approving food and dietary supplement health claims in 1993. Reviews of petitions results in proposed claims being rejected or approved. If approved, specific wording is allowed on package labels. In 1999, a second process for claims review was created. If there is not a scientific consensus on the totality of the evidence, a Qualified Health Claim (QHC) may be established. The FDA does not "approve" qualified health claim petitions. Instead, it issues a Letter of Enforcement Discretion that includes very specific claim language and the restrictions on using that wording.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutrition/ucm2006877.htm |title=Qualified health claims |website=Overview from the US Food & Drug Administration |access-date=24 August 2018 |archive-date=7 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907203827/https://www.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutrition/ucm2006877.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The first QHCs relevant to vitamin E were issued in 2003: "Some scientific evidence suggests that consumption of antioxidant vitamins may reduce the risk of certain forms of cancer." In 2009, the claims became more specific, allowing that vitamin E might reduce the risk of renal, bladder and colorectal cancers, but with required mention that the evidence was deemed weak and the claimed benefits highly unlikely. A petition to add brain, cervical, gastric and lung cancers was rejected. A further revision, May 2012, allowed that vitamin E may reduce risk of renal, bladder and colorectal cancers, with a more concise qualifier sentence added: "FDA has concluded that there is very little scientific evidence for this claim." Any company product label making the cancer claims has to include a qualifier sentence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/LabelingNutrition/ucm306866.htm |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/7993/20171114183722/https://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/LabelingNutrition/ucm306866.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 November 2017 |title=Alliance for Natural Health v. Sebelius, Case No. 09-1546 (D.D.C.) | date=2012 |website=US Food & Drug Administration |access-date=24 August 2018}}</ref>