Vitamin B6 - Change History

Fact Sheet for Health Professionals

June 16, 2023

View change — Updated Health Risks from Excessive Vitamin B6 to include a 2023 European Food Safety Authority scientific opinion on the tolerable upper intake level for vitamin B6.

June 2, 2022

Revised wording to be gender inclusive and to reflect current scientific consensus that obesity is a disease.

March 26, 2021

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

February 24, 2020

Updated Sources of Vitamin B6 to reflect the new Daily Value and the new Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts Labels.

September 19, 2019

Added text to state that vitamin B6 supplementation might reduce behavioral side effects of levetiracetam (Keppra®).

July 9, 2019

Updated the link to USDA’s FoodData Central.

September 17, 2018

Revised the footnote in Table 2 to acknowledge the updated Nutrition and Supplement Facts labels and how the vitamin B6 Daily Value will change on these labels.

March 2, 2018

Updated Dietary Reference Intake definitions.