One A Day (sometimes referred to as One-A-Day) is a product family of

multivitamin A multivitamin is a preparation intended to serve as a dietary supplement with vitamins, dietary minerals, and other nutritional elements. Such preparations are available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids, or injectable ...

s produced by the

Bayer Bayer AG (, commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of busi ...

corporation. One A Day was introduced in 1940 by

Miles Laboratories Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin Lawrence Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to ov ...

. Bayer markets fifteen products in the One A Day line: * Cholesterol Plus * Energy * Energy Advantage₂O * Essential * Maximum * Men's Health * Men's 50+ Advantage * Teen Advantage * VitaCraves Gummies * Women's * Women's₂O * Women's 50+ Advantage * Women's Active Metabolism * Women's Active Mind & Body * Women's Prenatal Bayer had heavily marketed a "WeightSmart" brand, but it was discontinued after the

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recovered $3.2 million as part of $25 million settlement from Bayer, alleging that Bayer had falsely claimed that the product led to weight loss. One-A-Day Women's multivitamin was tested by

ConsumerLab.com ConsumerLab.com, LLC. is a privately held American company registered in White Plains, NY. It is a publisher of test results on health, wellness, and nutrition products. Consumer Labs is not a laboratory, but contracts studies to outside laborator ...

in their ''Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements Review'' of 38 of the leading multivitamin/multimineral products sold in the U.S. and Canada. This product passed ConsumerLab's 2011 test, which included testing of selected index elements, their ability to disintegrate in solution per

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guidelines, lead contamination threshold set in California Proposition 65, and meeting U.S.

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(FDA) labeling requirements.

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External links

One-A-Day homepage

FTC ruling regarding WeightSmart
Bayer brands Vitamins Products introduced in 1940