Botanical Adulterants Program

ABC announces search for day-to-day replacement for founder Blumenthal

22-Apr-2021 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council says it’s planning for the future in seeking a new day-to-day chief executive as founder Mark Blumenthal shifts to a more advisory role.

BAPP ashwagandha bulletin to help industry tell when roots have been adulterated with leaves

16-Jan-2019 By Hank Schultz

A new BAPP bulletin disseminates ways to detect the adulteration of ashwagandha products with undeclared material taken from the leaves or the stems of the plant.

Guest Article

For herbs, 2017 was a very good year

20-Dec-2017 By Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of the American Botanical Council

The past year had been a good one for the industry, with sales rising toward $8 billion and supporting clinical evidence for the category continuing to accrue.

BAP bulletin details adulteration of increasingly popular cranberry supplements

19-Dec-2017 By Hank Schultz

The latest Botanical Adulterants Program bulletin focuses on a foodstuff of seasonal interest — cranberry — whose application as a dietary ingredient is rapidly expanding.

ABC to detail new grapefruit seed extract adulteration bulletin at Oxford botanicals conference

21-Mar-2017 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council’s information on common adulterants has expanded significantly in the past year. This progress will be detailed at a meeting at an upcoming scientific meeting at the University of Mississippi.

ABC Adulterants Program speeds up publication schedule

18-Oct-2016 By Hank Schultz

The pace of publication for ABC’s Botanical Adulterants Program has been accelerating, with the group now claiming more than 25 communications of all types have been distributed.

New ‘Botanical Adulterants Bulletins’ series launched to help raise awareness of herb adulteration

12-May-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program has announced the publication of a new series of reviews on adulteration of botanical ingredients called the Botanical Adulterants Bulletins (BABs).

ABC releases lab document to help clean up black cohosh adulteration

10-Dec-2015 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council has released a Laboratory Guidance Document on black cohosh in an attempt to help industry stakeholders better identify this frequently adulterated botanical.

Endorsements continue for Botanical Adulterants Program as AOAC International announces support

11-Jun-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

The AOAC International has endorsed the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program, following a unanimous vote by the AOAC Board of Directors in April.

Leading British herbal organizations endorse Botanical Adulterants Educational Program

30-Jan-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) and the British Herbal Medicine Association (BHMA) have thrown their support behind the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program.

ABC releases lab guidance document on skullcap showing best methods to detect adulteration

09-Jan-2015 By Hank Schultz

As part of a second phase of its Botanical Adulterants Program, The American Botanical Council has released the first of a series of laboratory guidance documents, this one pertaining to the herb skullcap. First, the program alerted industry as to what...

International association endorses Botanical Adulterants Program

08-Sep-2014 By Hank Schultz

A major self policing and informational effort in the dietary supplement industry has received a signifcant boost on the international stage.  The Botanical Adulterants program, a coopertive venture of three North American-based organizaitons, has been...

American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) endorses the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program

07-Oct-2013 By Stephen Daniells

The American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) - North America's leading organization of scientists involved with research on medicinal plants, fungi, and marine organisms – has endorsed the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program, the first time...

Nonprofits join forces to tackle botanical adulteration

03-Nov-2011 By Elaine Watson

Three leading not-for-profit organizations have joined forces to create an education program to help the dietary supplements trade wise up to the tricks used by unscrupulous suppliers to adulterate botanicals.