NEWS & EVENTS
Upcoming Events
- CTDC Keynote Presentation "The Botanical Safety Consortium: A Public-Private Partnership to Enhance the Botanical Safety Toolkit" Tuesday 15 June 9:00 - 9:40 am GMT+8/ Monday 14 June 8 pm - 8:40 pm ET - Program Link here
- BSC Annual Meeting Thursday 24 June 11 am - 3 pm ET virtual. Free and open to all. Register here.
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)