A public-private partnership to improve botanical safety
BOTANICAL SAFETY CONSORTIUM
The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) was officially convened in November 2019, as the result of a Memorandum of Understanding between the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the non-profit Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI).
Our current charge is to evaluate the suitability of assays for botanicals as complex mixtures.
The BOTANICAL SAFETY CONSORTIUM will provide a sound scientific basis for integrating existing botanical safety & toxicity information with the latest toxicological tools.
This multi-partite, multi-stakeholder international effort will bring together key scientific experts to enhance the botanical safety toolkit and bring clarity to botanical dietary ingredient assessments.
New publication in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Improving the rigor and utility of botanical toxicity studies: Recommended resources Deval Patel, Barbara C. Sorkin, Constance A. Mitchell, Michelle R. Embry, Sharline Rina-Kong, Rebecca…
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New BSC Review
Potential pharmacokinetic interactions with concurrent use of herbal medicines and a ritonavir-boosted COVID-19 protease inhibitor in low and middle-income countries Dallas J. Smith, Huichang Bi,…
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BSC 2023 Annual Meeting
28 September 2023 Botanical Safety Consortium 2023 Annual Meeting held virtually on Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 9:00 – 3:30 (US Eastern). The meeting is…
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For more information, please contact: botanicalsafety@hesiglobal.org.