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BSC Annual Meeting
29 May 2020 via Webinar
9:00 Introductions & Objectives
Michelle Embry, HESI
9:15 Botanical Safety: Discovering Common Struggles, Needs, and Solutions
Dan Marsman, Procter & Gamble
9:35 The BSC as a public-private partnership: HESI‘s involvement in the BSC
Connie Mitchell & Michelle Embry, HESI
10:05 Research on Botanical Safety at the National Toxicology Program
Cynthia Rider, NIEHS / NTP
10:25 The Modernization of FDA’s Dietary Supplement Program: the Botanical Safety Consortium
Cara Welch, USFDA CFSAN
10:45 What are the objectives of the BSC and how does it plan to meet them?
Jim Griffiths, CRN
11:00 Botanical Ingredient Characterization; a tale of more than one thousand and one compounds
Stefan Gafner, ABC
11:30 Avengers Assemble! A Day in the Life of the BSC Technical Working Groups
Joe Dever, Amway
12:00 Conclusions
12:15 Open discussion / Q&A
12:45 Adjourn
BSC events at Scientific Meetings
Click to access PDFs of the presentations:
- Applying Modern Toxicology to Botanical Dietary Supplements. Michelle Embry (HESI, Washington, DC)
- Chemical Analysis: The Foundation of Botanical Safety. Joshua Kellog (Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA)
- Developing and Applying In Vitro Liver Models to Address Potential Hepatotoxicity of Botanical Dietary Supplements. Amy Roe (Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH)
- Systems Toxicology Approaches to Evaluate Botanical Safety. Joseph Dever (Amway Nutrilite, Grand Rapids, MI)
- Challenges and Approaches for Using Animal and Human Data to Evaluate In Vitro Systems in Botanical Safety Assessment. Cynthia Rider (NIEHS/NTP, Research Triangle Park, NC)