Selenium - Change History

Fact Sheet for Consumers

April 15, 2024

View change — This fact sheet was comprehensively reviewed and extensively revised.

March 26, 2021

Updated the Daily Value text, linked to the new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and updated the associated text.

March 11, 2020

Updated Sources of Selenium to reflect the new Daily Value and the new Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts Labels.

October 17, 2019

Corrected the link for reference 45.

July 9, 2019

Updated the link to USDA’s FoodData Central.

September 26, 2018

Revised the footnote in Table 2 to acknowledge the updated Nutrition and Supplement Facts labels and how the selenium Daily Value will change on these labels.

March 2, 2018

Updated Dietary Reference Intake definitions.