This document provides an overview of a workshop on economic adulteration of botanical ingredients. The workshop will bring together representatives from academia, industry, and government to discuss adulteration and fraud of natural ingredients in foods and herbal products. Experts will address topics like detection of adulteration, the role of sourcing and quality control, regulations, and case studies. The objectives are to share insights on preventing adulteration globally, hear regulator perspectives, identify best practices, and discuss potential solutions through an expert panel discussion.

1. Economic Adulteration of Botanical Ingredients:
What Do We Know, and How Can We Solve it?
Sunday, September 1, 2019 09:00 - 17:00, CCB
University of Innsbruck, Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine
Innrain 80 – 82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Adulteration and fraud of natural ingredients added to foods are global concerns for stakeholders, for industry, for risk
assessors and risk managers, and for EU consumers. Despite strict regulations for herbal medicines in the EU, many
herbal products with botanicals, particularly those sold as food supplements, have been reportedly diluted or substitu-
ted with undeclared lower-cost ingredients. This event, hosted as pre-conference symposium of the 67th International
Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), is a continuation
of the initial workshop on adulteration in botanical health ingredients held in November 2018, bringing together repre-
sentatives from academia, industry, and government. What is the EU industry doing about it? What are the plans of
regulators? What lessons can be learned and tools used from leading experts? What can be learned from the US edu-
cation initiatives by the nonprofit ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)? How can adul-
teration and fraud be prevented? And what happens when it is discovered? All topics will be addressed by a panel of
experts in a round table discussion.
Main Topics
• Adulteration and fraud in botanicals: Processes and detection
• The role of sourcing/vertical Integration
• Adulteration and fraud in food
• DNA-based methods for authenticity testing
• Adulteration and regulations
• Market perspective
Workshop Objectives
• Obtain insights into the problem and what is being done globally to prevent adulteration
• Hear the views and plans of regulators and risk assessors
• Identify tools and practices for prevention
• Learn through case studies about health risks and impacts of natural ingredient fraud
• Participate in a panel discussion with experts
• Put the basis for a joint position paper
Sponsored by:
SPEAKERS
• Anna-Rita Bilia, University of Florence, President of GA
• Mark Blumenthal, American Botanical Council
• Luca Bucchini, Hylobates Consulting
• Débora Frommenwiler, Camag AG
• Stefan Gafner, American Botanical Council
• Roy Upton, American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
• Anna Mulá, Euromed
• Julien Diaz, Botanicert
• René de Vaumas, Extrasynthese
• Speaker from Foods Supplements Europe
Further speakers and agenda will be updated on the GA website under:
www.ga2019.at/pre-congress-symposia/botanical-ingredient-adulteration.html
REGISTRATION https://cmi.eventsair.com/ga2019/registrationpresymposia/Site/Register