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…
11th German Pharm-Tox Summit
17 – 20 March 2026 The Botanical Safety Consortium will have a poster presentation on Thursday, March 19th at the 11th German Pharm-Tox Summit. Poster Number: P265Title: The Botanical Safety…
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…