FDA-NIEHS-HESI Led Botanical Safety Consortium Announces Call for Participants & 2020 Activities
The
Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC)
was officially convened in November 2019, as the result of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
, the
National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
, and the non-profit
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI)
. The mission of the BSC is to provide a forum for global scientists from government, academia, consumer health groups, industry, and non-profit organizations to work collaboratively to generate a sound scientific basis for integrating existing safety data and the latest toxicology tools to evaluate safety in botanical dietary supplements.
The BSC will fulfill its mission via the following objectives:
Engage with a broad group of global stakeholders to leverage the best scientific approaches
Establish the appropriate levels of chemical characterization for complex botanical products
Identify pragmatic, fit-for-purpose,
in vitro
&
in silico
assays to evaluate botanical safety
Evaluate the application of these tools via comparison to the currently available safety information
Integrate these tools and approaches into a framework that can facilitate robust evaluation of botanical substances
For
additional
information about the Botanical Safety Consortium, including how to join, visit the
www.botanicalsafetyconsortium.org
or contact HESI at
botanicalsafety@hesiglobal.org
.
hesiglobal.org