For the last 40 years, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has defended the safety of herbs and herbal ingredients and worked to ensure that herbal products remain accessible to our families, friends, and neighbors. As the industry has grown—through...
Advances in compliance, diligence, responsibility, and transparency has moved the needle on best practices in the sports nutrition category, and the perception that the category is the “Wild West” is outdated, says the CSO of Dymatize.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has launched the free, publicly-accessible AHPA Botanical Identity References Compendium for manufacturers and researchers to accurately identify botanical ingredients.
The proposed changes by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to the state’s controversial Prop 65 law ‘could be helpful to companies that need to deal with this law’, says AHPA's legal counsel.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) announced it has
submitted a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to
request that the agency deny a food additive petition that would
allow the use of ionizing irradiation...
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is launching a
program to record incidents of import detentions and other
border-related activities surrounding plants used as ingredients in
dietary supplements.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has highlighted
sustainability of herbal harvesting as a key movement in the
industry, as part of its 2004-2005 Tonnage Survey of North American
Wild Harvested Plants.
In a bid to more effectively protect wild herbs used by the natural
products industry, AHPA has found fault with the US Forest
Service's definition of what constitutes a "native plant"
and wants greater emphasis put...
A new study reports that one-third of black cohosh products tested
were not genuine but contained substituted products, results that
should drive manufacturers to comply with American Herbal Products
Association's (AHPA) recommendations.
American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) members have identified
three hot areas of concern or debate for the herbal industry,
prompting the association to form special committees on Hoodia
gordonii, Ayurvedic herbal products,...
A herbal trade organisation last week challenged two federal
agencies to correct past statements that used misleading
descriptions of dietary supplements and echinacea.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has introduced a
new trade recommendation on metal-processed herbs in the light of
heightened awareness over potentially dangerous heavy metal levels
in some Ayurvedic products, writes...
