Botanical Safety Consortium News
Updates, publications, and announcements from the BSC community.
Toxicology 101 for Botanicals & Natural Products: A Hands-On Short Course at ICSB 2026
19 April 2026 The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) is offering a special training course titled “Cultivating Safety: Toxicology 101 for Botanicals and Natural Products” on Sunday, April 19, 2026,…
Society of Toxicology 2026 Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
22 – 25 March 2026 The Botanical Safety Consortium will be attending SOT 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA. Presentations Tuesday 24 March 9:15 am PT Evaluating the hepatotoxic potential…
New publication: An exploratory evaluation of the interaction risk between herbal products and pharmaceutical medicines used concurrently for disease management in Blantyre, Malawi
🌿 The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) has released a timely new study as part of its Global Outreach Program: “An exploratory evaluation of the interaction risk between herbal products and…
New publication: Dose-response assessment of neuroactive botanical extracts and their bioactive constituents using microelectrode array (MEA) recordings in rat primary cortical cultures
The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) has published a new study titled “Dose-response assessment of neuroactive botanical extracts and their bioactive constituents using microelectrode array (MEA) recordings in rat primary cortical…
New publication: From Vision to Reality: Five Years of the Botanical Safety Consortium
The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) was launched in 2019 to unite scientists from government, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations in advancing the safety evaluation of botanicals as complex mixtures. A…
New publication: Developing an approach for evaluating the cardiotoxic potential of botanicals
Botanical supplements are widely used but often lack rigorous safety testing – especially for potential cardiotoxicity. A new publication from the HESI Botanical Safety Consortium’s Cardiotoxicity Working Group outlines a…
Botanical Safety Consortium 2025 Annual Meeting
Event Recap • 2025 BSC Annual Meeting • 5-6 November 2025 Day 1 Recordings Join HESI Global’s Botanical Safety Consortium for its 2025 BSC Annual Meeting, a two-day virtual event…
New publication: A multi-detector analytical approach for characterizing complex botanical extracts: a case study on ashwagandha.
A multi-detector analytical approach for characterizing complex botanical extracts: a case study on ashwagandha. Sica et al. Anal Bioanal Chem (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-025-06006-8 Ensuring the safety and authenticity of botanical supplements…
2025 Personal Care Products Council Science Symposium & Expo
29 October 2025 HESI Global’s Connie Mitchell presents at the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) Science Symposium & Expo on October 29, 2025. Her talks is titled “Rooted in Science: Best Practices…
BSC Call for Experts: Zebrafish and C. elegans Behavioral Assays
The Botanical Safety Consortium is seeking experts in Zebrafish embryo and larval behavioral assays C. elegans behavioral assays These experts will support the Neurotoxicity Working Group in reviewing a dataset…