Botanical adulteration, like doping in sports, is a problem that can be controlled but never totally resolved, but what is being done about it? Here the world’s biggest botanical players debate their attacks on the problem.
Updated: USP outlines its improvements for ginkgo testing
A new, simple method can address the problem of identifying adulterants in ginkgo biloba extracts, claim the scientists from Southern Cross University and Integria Healthcare in Australia who developed it.
The American Botanical Council has acquired a powerful partner. The world’s largest organization concerned with medicial plants has endorsed ABC’s adulterants program, which researches and publicizes the substances used to adulterate many botanicals...
Efforts by Synutra Ingredients to clean up the chondroitin supply chain are being heeded by the ‘largest and best’ supplement manufacturers, says the company’s president, with the company now the #1 chondroitin supplier in the US.
DNA barcoding for botanicals has a bright future, despite comments that it may not yet be fit for purpose, and the next 2-3 years will see a ‘huge shift’ towards the ‘robust and reliable technology’, says the CEO of AuthenTechnologies.
