Botanicals Identification and Testing Course
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About This Course
This training provides an overview of the guidance on testing methodology, specifications and ingredient identification for botanicals. Combining extensive industry experience and real-world case studies with flexible and convenient training, participants in NSF’s botanical identification and testing course will:
- Identify botanical unknowns
- Investigate the characterization of botanicals
- Differentiate between natural and adulterated botanicals
- Review organoleptic characterization
- Learn how high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can be used for testing adulterated botanical identification
- Make sense of complex steps to ensure testing methods are scientifically valid for species identification
Botanical Identification - Methods in Chemistry
In this section, you will learn about:
- Adulteration in botanicals
- Complexity within botanicals
- Variations
- Reference materials
- Evaluation tools
- Spectroscopic techniques
- Chromatographic techniques
- Spectrometric techniques
- Spectroscopic techniques
- Genomic techniques
Can’t Attend the Live Course?
Register for the Botanical Identification - Methods in Chemistry recorded session.
Register nowBotanical Identification - Macroscopic, Microscopic and Organoleptic Techniques
In this section, you will learn about:
- Herbs in supplements
- Brief overview of Good Agricultural and Collection Practices and Good Manufacturing for Botanical Materials
- Specifications
- 21 CFR Part 111
- Subpart E 111.70 Establishment of specification for identity, purity, strengths and composition
- Subpart J 111:320 Requirements for laboratory methods for testing and examination
- Subpart E 111.75 Meeting specifications/test methods
- Selecting scientifically valid methods
- Botanical identification, adulteration
- Review organoleptic characterization
Can’t Attend the Live Course?
Register for the Botanical Identification - Macroscopic, Microscopic and Organoleptic Techniques recorded session.
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