Examining the Science Behind Nutraceuticals presents the Proceedings of the Dietary Supplements Forum of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Examining the Science Behind Nutraceuticals covers:

• terms used in the industry
• regulatory implications
• pharmacoeconomics
• health benefits and risks
• databases of physiochemical properties, risks, and benefits
• challenges of educating the consumer as well as the healthcare professional
• standardizing botanical extracts
• supplement delivery
• product quality and performance
• scientific barriers to establishing standards for the manufacture, product quality, and performance

Contents

Session I: Authentication, Characterization, and Standards

• Authentication and Characterization of Botanicals: Ensuring the Quality of Dietary Supplements
• Clinical Studies and Trials to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements: Approaches, Stumbling Blocks, and the Consumer Quandary
• Dietary Supplements: Standards and Information Challenges

Session II: Raw Materials: Production and Extraction of Botanicals

• Considerations in the Selection of Botanical Raw Materials
• The Role of Markets for the Quality Determination of Botanical Raw Materials and Extracts
• Considerations in the Selection of Botanical Raw Materials: A Case Study with Feverfew

Session III: Clinical/Consumer Interface I: Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods

• Utility of a Bioassay-Based Quality Standards Testing Program (BioFit) for Botanical Products
• Photoestrogens and Cancer Risk
• Provided by Nature but Proven by Science: A Cholestin Development Saga

Session IV: Delivery Issues I: Performance Characteristics and Validation

• Validating Analytical Methods for Finished Products in Difficult Matrixes
• Allicin Release and Uptake from Garlic Supplements: A Substantial Problem Centered on Alliinase Activity
• Testing Botanical Supplements: Issues Related to Assessing Quality

Session V: Raw Materials II: Analytical Methods

• New Analytical Developments on Botanicals
• Analytical Challeges for Botanical Analysis

Session VI: Clinical/Consumer Interface II: Study Design and Evaluation of Clinical Trials

• Design, Implementation and Results of a Clinical Trial to Evaluate Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine
• Design and Results of a Study to Analyze the Contents of Glucosamine and Chondroitin
• Sulfate Content in Marketed Products: Update and the Need for Industry Standards
• Drugs that Rob the Body of Nutrients

Session VII: Delivery Issues II: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)

• Nutraceuticals, GMPs, Safety Stability, and Date Coding
• Good Manufacturing Processes for Dietary Supplements: Current Approaches

Session VIII: Raw Materials III: Standardization of Botanicals

• Scientific Issues in the Standardization of Botanical Raw Materials
• Challenges and the Need for Standardization of Botanical Raw Materials
• Standardization of Botanical Raw Materials with Appropriate Reference Standards

Session IX: Clinical/Consumer Interface III: Education of Healthcare Professionals and Consumers

• Education of Healthcare Professionals and Consumers Pharmacy Practitioner and Consumer Demands
• Challenges in Communicating with Consumers

Session X: Delivery Issues III: Bioavailability and Bioequivalence of Nutraceuticals

• Nutraceutical Formulations: Impact on Bioavailability

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