Public Health Issues Warning Over Risk of Adverse Reactions Due to Excess Vitamin D in a Food Supplement Distributed in the Balearic Islands

Jul 7, 2025 | Current affairs, Featured, Interview, Portada, Post, Revista Lloseta, Thursday Daily Bulletin, Tradition


A batch of the food supplement ERIX ELITE SPORT with high doses of vitamin D has caused more than a dozen hospitalisations in the Balearic Islands due to hypercalcemia and kidney failure

The alert has been forwarded to the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN), which has issued a nationwide warning.

The Food Safety Service of the Balearic Public Health Directorate has issued a health alert due to excess vitamin D content, allegedly caused by a formulation error, in the product ADVANCED VITAMIN X (90 capsules), batch number 251268, from the brand ERIX ELITE SPORT NUTRITION. This supplement was marketed as a dietary product and was initially distributed in the Balearic Islands.

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Public Health Issues Warning Over Risk of Adverse Reactions Due to Excess Vitamin D in a Food Supplement Distributed in the Balearic Islands

Food Safety authorities have carried out an inspection at the distributor’s premises, collected samples, and blocked all remaining stock of the product.

This product appears to be the cause of over ten hospital admissions at public hospitals in the Balearic Islands during May and June, due to cases of acute kidney failure, hypercalcemia, and elevated vitamin D levels in blood. The affected individuals were otherwise healthy people who had consumed multivitamin products purchased online, without pharmaceutical oversight.

The Epidemiology Service of the Ministry of Health has also issued a secondary alert to the healthcare system, aimed at increasing surveillance for potential new cases in both public and private hospitals.

Meanwhile, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN), after being informed by Public Health authorities, has issued a national-level alert instructing the withdrawal of the affected product from all distribution channels, and has recommended that consumers refrain from using any units of the product they may have at home.