Tocopherol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Tocopherol is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Sold as
- Vitamin E
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every tocopherol product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Vitamin E.
Combination products containing tocopherol
A combination is a different drug — different dosing, different warnings. It is listed here so you can find it, not so you can substitute it.
What people report to the FDA about tocopherol
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 7,406 reports naming tocopherol, and the FDA flagged 74% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- nausea788 reports
- diarrhoea666 reports
- fatigue642 reports
- dyspnoea581 reports
- headache576 reports
- weight decreased441 reports
- arthralgia438 reports
- pyrexia422 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean tocopherol caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 26, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Vitamin E?
Fat-soluble antioxidant vitamin supporting skin and cell protection.
Can you take tocopherol with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run tocopherol against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
Is there a generic tocopherol?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled tocopherol product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Tocopherol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/tocopherol
- MLA
- “Tocopherol: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/tocopherol.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for tocopherol on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.