Botanical adulterants collaboration maintains momentum
The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program – a collaboration of the American Botanical Council, the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, and the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi – maintained its momentum with a new publication of adulteration in bilberry (HerbalGram, 2012, 96:64-73).
ABC’s Mark Blumenthal told us that the next topics in the series would be black cohosh and pomegranate extracts.
So far, the collaboration has published in-depth reviews on the issue of adulteration in grapefruit seed extracts (HerbalGram, 2012, 94:62-66), bilberry (HerbalGram, 2012, 96:64-73),skullcap (HerbalGram, 2012, 93:34-41), and a historical overview of the adulteration dilemma (HerbalGram, 2011, 92:42-57).