Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've been taking these vitamins for years thinking I was doing a good thing for my body and just today when I went to check out I noticed a state of CA lead warning on the item. I usually ignore this as CA is paranoid about everything but when I did some more research I found out that this brand in particular has way more lead than is permissible on a daily basis. On top of that, it has 7,500 IU of Vitamin A. The level of vitamin A you need to ingest over a long period of time to develop chronic vitamin A toxicity is only 100,000 IU. If you eat foods high in vitamin A and take this vitamin daily, you will easily exceed the daily limit. In addition, as others have stated, these vitamins stink to high heaven and taste just as bad. I can get them down by covering up the flavor with orange juice but if I drink water there is a residual horribleness that I can only cover up by eating something. I have heard this smell, taste, and sometimes nausea is caused by the type of iron used in the pill (ferrous fumarate). If you take carbonyl iron instead there's no disgusting flavor and it's easier to digest. After many years I ended up switching to another brand of multivitamin that doesn't overdose me on vitamins my body will either expel or build up in my liver - the former being a waste of money and the latter being dangerous.