"Americans consume more than $4 billion worth of St. John’s wort, Echinacea, Ginkgo biloba and other herbal products each year in hopes of improving their health, memory and even their sex lives. But are these products effective, or even safe?"
So starts the announcement for the 6th Oxford (Miss.) International Conference on the Science of Botanicals. Scientists from around the world will meet, next week (Apr. 30 to May 3), to share new data on the safety and quality of such plant-based dietary supplements. Among the event's august hosts: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the National Center for Natural Products Research, a unit of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy.
A program for the meeting is available at: http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/ICSB/index.html . . . then click on agenda.
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