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Bone and Joint Natural Health: A Moving Market
The panel: Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Vice President of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, NutraScience Labs, Farmingdale, NY, www.nutrasciencelabs.com Eric Ciappio, Strategic Development Manager, Nutrition Science, Balchem, Montvale, NJ, https://balchem.com Ohad Cohen, CEO, Gadot Biochemical Industries, Haifa Bay, Israel, www.gadotbio.com Nena Dockery, Scientific Affairs Manager, Stratum Nutrition, Carthage, MO, www.stratumnutrition.com Isabel Elias-Castro, President, Maypro Global ...
Embracing Botanical Extracts
While the popularity of certain medicinal plants may ebb and flow, the need for research and clean ingredients remains steady for botanical extracts in finished products. The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements sums up a botanical best in its definition of the item—“a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal or ...
Workshop Provides Practical Instruction on Botanical Identification
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) and American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) held a two-day workshop, “Botanical, macroscopic and organoleptic assessment of herbal ingredients for cGMP (current good manufacturing practice) compliance” on June 15-16 at Portland State University in Oregon. The hands-on workshop provided a detailed orientation of botanical, macroscopic, and organoleptic identification methods; quality assessment techniques ...
Forming a United Herbal Industry
To confront botanical adulteration, Dr. Daniel Fabricant, CEO, Natural Products Association (NPA), suggested suppliers and manufacturers pay close attention to the Food Safety and Modernization Act and the burden it’s going to bring on the suppliers. “It’s incredibly important and something we’re working on at the NPA,” he said. The New York attorney general is ...
Preventing an Identity Crisis
Analytical methods are spotlighted when a botanical’s new popularity raises the specter of adulteration, but more generally help assure that that the ingredient is the genuine article.The months-long controversy over DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine) can be seen as a poster child for the importance of validated analytical methods. This past April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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