Mark Blumenthal

ABC's HerbClip research reporting service now numbers more than 7,000 publications

17-Jan-2018 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council passes a significant milestone this week with the publication of the 7,000th Herb Clip Research Summary. The service helps stakeholders keep abreast of the rapidly expanding body of botanical ingredient research.

New name for BAPP better outlines mission of program that ferrets out adulteration

12-Jan-2018 By Hank Schultz

The new name of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program better identifies it, but doesn’t change the underlying principles on which is it grounded.

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.

Attention given to preventing adulteration on the rise, but has that curbed the problem?

24-Jun-2016 By Hank Schultz

Is the dietary supplement industry getting a handle on the adulteration issue?  The baseline data does not exist to be able to say one way or another. But sources agree that in the one thing you can measure—the attention the issue is getting—the situation...

ABC Community Builder Award recipient announced

08-Mar-2016 By Stephen Daniells

The American Botanical Council has announced that Michael Tierra, LAc, OMD, AHG, is the recipient of the 2015 ABC Mark Blumenthal Herbal Community Builder Award.

ABC lab document to help industry stem tide of bilberry adulteration

14-Aug-2015 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council has taken another major step in its Botanical Adulterants Program with the release of a Laboratory Guidance Document on bilberry.

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...

Turmeric/curcumin supplement sales grow 26%, total herbal supplements sales top $6 billion for the first time

03-Sep-2014 By Stephen DANIELLS

Sales of herbal dietary supplements with turmeric/curcumin as the primary ingredient grew by 26.2% in 2013 to take the top spot in the natural channel, says a new report published in the current issue of the American Botanical Council’s HerbalGram.

ABC's HerbalGram celebrates 30th anniversary

13-Aug-2013 By Hank Schultz

The American Botanical Council hit a milestone with the 30th anniversary of its quarterly publication, HerbalGram. The publication, which began life as a simple newsletter, has now transformed into an 80-page, full color magazine/journal hybrid featuring...

Ayurvedic workhorses poised for market breakthrough, expert predicts

17-Jan-2013 By Hank Schultz

If you are looking for what’s hot on the botanical front in 2013, here’s the skinny from a longtime observer of the herbal arena: Open your lesson book to the first two pages, and follow after me: A is for Ayurveda and ashwagandha and B is for bacopa.

Herbs and drugs: labelling or liability?

28-Jun-2004

Last week's WHO guidelines on dietary supplements reinvigorated the
debate about how manufacturers can direct attention to the effects
herbal supplements may have on prescription drugs. Philippa
Nuttall spoke to Mark Blumenthal,...