March 26, 2021
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Updated the Daily Value text, linked to the new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and updated the associated text.
July 31, 2020
Revised text to state that in a clinical trial involving 29,133 male smokers, men randomly assigned to take daily supplements of 111 IU of synthetic vitamin E (50 mg, as dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate) for 5–8 years had 32% fewer prostate cancers compared to subjects who did not take the supplements.
February 28, 2020
Updated Sources of Vitamin E to reflect the new Daily Value and the new Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts Labels.
July 10, 2019
Updated the link to USDA’s FoodData Central.
August 17, 2018
Revised paragraph in the “Recommended Intakes” section and the footnote in Table 2 to acknowledge the updated Nutrition and Supplement Facts labels and how the units for vitamin E and its Daily Value will change on these labels.
March 2, 2018
Updated Dietary Reference Intake definitions.
August 31, 2016
Added new paragraph to "Recommended Intakes" section to explain that older conversion factors from 1968 for converting between IU and mg for vitamin E are used for the manufacture and addition of this nutrient to dietary supplements and foods, as well as for the labeling the vitamin E content of these products, instead of newer conversion factors issued in 2000.
