NEWS & EVENTS
Upcoming Events
2020 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Virtual Meeting 12 - 16 September 2020 - register for FREE
Member Jim MacGregor will present on botanical safety on Monday 14 September in the GRAPH SIG 7:35 to 7:50 pm ET.
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
Members Ivonne Rietjens, Catherine Mahony, and Stefan Pfuhler are giving talks.
News Articles
BSC Virtual Annual Meeting
29 May 2020
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)
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)