Vitamin D - Change History

Fact Sheet for Health Professionals

July 26, 2024

View change — Replaced the 2011 Endocrine Society Guidelines on Vitamin D with the 2024 Guidelines, and updated the Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease subsections of the Vitamin D and Health section to include findings from a long-term analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative Calcium and Vitamin D trial.

September 18, 2023

Updated links for the Vitamin D Standardization Program.

August 12, 2022

Updated the "Bone health and osteoporosis" subsection to include a 2022 ancillary study of the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL) on vitamin D and fractures.

June 2, 2022

Revised wording to reflect current scientific consensus that obesity is a disease.

April 28, 2022

Updated the Dietary Supplements section to clarify that vitamin D3 is typically produced by irradiation of 7-dehydrocholesterol from lanolin obtained from the wool of sheep. Added text to state that an animal-free version of vitamin D3 sourced from lichen is also available and people who avoid all animal-sourced products can contact dietary supplement manufacturers to ask about their sourcing and processing techniques.

August 17, 2021

Revised Table 3 to increase the serving size of cheddar cheese.

March 26, 2021

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

September 11, 2020

This fact sheet was comprehensively reviewed and extensively revised.

March 24, 2020

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

August 7, 2019

Added text to state that plant milk alternatives are often fortified with vitamin D to the amount found in fortified cow's milk.

July 9, 2019

Updated the link to USDA’s FoodData Central.

November 9, 2018

Added results of the newly published VITAmin D and OmegaA-3 TriaL (VITAL) on cardiovascular disease and cancer.

September 26, 2018

Revised the footnote in Table 3 to acknowledge the updated Nutrition and Supplement Facts labels and how the units for vitamin D and its Daily Value will change on these labels.

March 2, 2018

Updated Dietary Reference Intake definitions.