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  • Sabinsa's parent company Sami Labs breaks ground on $30 million state of the art production facility
  • Unstoppable Moms Across America launches new Gold Standard to shift the marketplace for a healthier planet
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    Frontline segment on supplement safety skewed and misleading

    AHPA Update

    Regulated supplement industry has long history of advocating for strong enforcement of current law.

    AHPA and UNPA launch campaign to educate state attorneys general

    AHPA Update

    Joint campaign will develop working relationships with state attorneys general (AG) and educate state AGs about the herbal supplement industry.

    Global warming and botanicals (Nutrition Business Journal)

    AHPA Market Alert

    Editor's Note: "We are entering a new era of weather. And the forecast for ingredient supply is changing just as fast," writes AHPA Member Bill Chioffi in Nutrition Business Journal. Chioffi illustrates how extreme weather caused by global warming can impact the supply of certain botanicals. Because botanicals are often grown in geographical niches particular to the plants and the cultures that produce them, the impact of climate change is likely more complicated than for all other commodity crops, according to Chioffi.

    AHPA Policy prohibits the sale of bulk caffeine

    Recent reports associate serious injury and death with use of pure caffeine purchased by consumers in bulk packaging

    The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Board of Trustees on March 4 established a trade requirement that prohibits sale by AHPA members of pure caffeine in bulk form at retail (to consumers).

    Whitepaper on DNA barcode testing reveals how misapplication of science led to baseless results

    The Capabilities and Limitations of DNA Barcode Testing

    A comprehensive analysis of DNA barcode testing on botanical dietary supplements has called conclusions reached by the New York Attorney General’s (NY AG) office in an investigation of four major retailers of botanical supplements, a “…misuse of the technologies” that led to a “…misinterpretation of test results.”
    AHPA-ERB Foundation Forms The American Ginseng Advisory Panel

    AHPA-ERB Foundation Forms The American Ginseng Advisory Panel

    American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Foundation for Education and Research on Botanicals (AHPA-ERB Foundation) formed the American Ginseng Advisory Panel to provide expertise on the development and maintenance of collecting plant material that will preserve the genetic diversity of wild American Ginseng

    The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Foundation for Education and Research on Botanicals (AHPA-ERB Foundation) formed the American Ginseng Advisory Panel to provide expertise on the development and maintenance of collecting plant material that will preserve the genetic diversity of wild American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius).

    BMJ corrects column on MHRA's "traditional herbal registration" (BMJ)

    Cleveland Clinic partners with AHPA members Crane Herb and KPC Products

    The Cleveland Clinic recently made headlines when it announced that it had opened a Chinese Herbal Therapy Clinic, one of the first hospital-based herbal clinics in the U.S. The clinic relies on two AHPA members, Crane Herb Company and KPC Products, to supply the herbs it provides to patients.
    Nearly one in five Americans use herbal or other nonvitamin supplements (CDC National Center for Health Statistics)

    Nearly one in five Americans use herbal or other nonvitamin supplements (CDC National Center for Health Statistics)

    2002–2003 Tonnage Survey of Select North American Wild-Harvested Plants

    AHPA PDF Publication

    2002–2003 Tonnage Survey of Select North American Wild-Harvested Plants
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