NEWS & EVENTS

Upcoming Events

Quarterly BSC Stakeholder Meeting: 25 August 2020 11 am - 2 pm EST - open to current Stakeholders. To become a Stakeholder fill out this application

Society of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research: Novel insights into pyrrolizidine alkaloid toxicity and implication for risk assessment: eSymposium 29 & 30 September 2020 - register or view the agenda

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News Articles

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07 July 2020: Botanical Researchers Aim to Fill Gap Safety Testing (NIEHS Environmental Factor)

01 May 2020: Botanical Safety Taken on by New Consortium (NIH Record)

01 Apr 2020: Botanical Safety Taken on by New Consortium (NIEHS Environmental Factor)

21 Nov 2019: FDA: Botanical Safety Consortium Formally Convened (Whole Foods Magazine)

15 Nov 2019: FDA Convenes the Botanical Safety Consortium (IFT News)

15 Nov 2019: FDA Unveils Retail Program Standards and Botanical Safety Consortium (New Food Mag)

15 Nov 2019: Botanical Safety Consortium Formally Convenes (Nutraceuticals World)

14 Nov 2019: FDA Announces Convening of the Botanical Safety Consortium (USFDA)

25 June 2019: The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC): The Development of a 21st Century Framework for Assessing the Safety of Botanical Dietary Supplements (Regulatory Focus Article)

BSC Virtual Annual Meeting

29 May 2020

View the Recording!

Click to access PDFs of the presentations:

Introductions & Objectives (Michelle Embry, HESI)
Botanical Safety: Discovering Common Struggles, Needs, and Solutions (Dan Marsman, P&G)
The BSC as a public-private partnership: HESI‘s involvement in the BSC (Connie Mitchell, HESI)
Research on Botanical Safety at the National Toxicology Program (Cynthia Rider, NIEHS / NTP)
The Modernization of FDA’s Dietary Supplement Program: the Botanical Safety Consortium (Cara Welch, USFDA CFSAN)
Avengers Assemble! A Day in the Life of the BSC Technical Working Groups (Joe Dever, Amway)
Botanical Ingredient Characterization; a tale of more than one thousand and one compounds (Stefan Gafner, ABC)
Conclusions & Wrap-up (Jim Griffiths, CRN)

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BSC events at Scientific Meetings

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2020 Virtual SOT Session – “Applying Modern Toxicology to Botanical Dietary Supplements”

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)

Session at ICSB – 16-20 August 2020; Oxford, Mississippi

Black Botanists Week

July 6th - 11th 2020 was Black Botanists Week. Search #BlackBotanistsWeek on Instagram or Twitter or visit blackbotanistsweek.com to learn more

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