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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.

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...

World's largest medicinal plant organization endorses ABC's adulterants program

15-Jan-2014 By Hank Schultz

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...

USP proposes monograph on specific bacillus coagulans probiotic strain

10-Jan-2014 By Hank Schultz

For the first time, the United States Pharmacopoeia is proposing a monograph on a probiotic organism as a food ingredient in the latest series of draft monographs put forward for inclusion in the Food Chemicals Codex.

ABC bilberry article seeks to close door on adulteration

05-Nov-2012 By Hank Schultz

An article published by the American Botanical Council for the first time gathers in one place all of the information available on how bilberry extracts are being adulterated in the marketplace, said coauthor and ABC executive director Mark Blumenthal.

Easy as ABC: Botanicals body launches fightback vs economic adulteration

16-May-2011

A new series of white papers will help the dietary supplements trade wise up to the tricks used by unscrupulous suppliers to adulterate herbals and botanicals, American Botanical Council (ABC) founder Mark Blumenthal tells Elaine Watson.

Rapid adulteration testing for supplements developed by NOW Foods

18-Jan-2011 By Stephen Daniells

NOW Foods has developed a rapid screening test to detect adulterants in dietary supplements, which it hopes will change the perception that dietary supplements are ‘unregulated’.

Testing must improve to detect supplement contamination

04-Sep-2009 By Shane Starling

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is calling for more stringent testing methods and definitions to combat the growing problem of economically motivated adulteration (EMA) of dietary supplements.