Botanical conference to ‘review, discuss, and explore the confluence’ of research

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Current research trends in natural product chemistry, pharmacognosy, and botanicals will take center stage at the 10th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals.

The event, hosted by the National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) within the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi and takes place April 11-14, 2011, and will address issues including authentication of botanical identity, cultivation, collection, and post-harvest practices for producing quality plant materials.

The event will also explore chemical and toxicological methods regarding botanical quality/safety assessments, as well as the various international regulatory approaches for adverse event reporting (AER) for botanical products.

The conference is co-sponsored by CFSAN/FDA, the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica/CAS (China), The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR - India), the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (USA), the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine, (Sri Lanka), and the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy.

For more information and to register, please click here.