Botanicals Methods And Techniques For Quality & Authenticity | Chemistry

The international trade in plants is growing steadily as the worldwide demand for natural and botanical raw materials increases. Customers value natural products and botanicals as green alternatives-safer ingredients for their families which also represent an environmentally and socially responsible choice for the planet. In order to build assurance into the sourcing of natural ingredients R&D organizations must have valid scientific matrices to authenticate the quality of those ingredients provide traceability and minimize risk. An assemblage of insight from expert contributors Botanicals: Methods and Techniques for Quality & Authenticity compiles a range of methods and techniques that can be used to help guide quality and authenticity determinations. Topics include:Metabolic profiling authentication of botanicals by morphology and genetic methods of botanical authentication Tools for building models for the authentication of materials How multivariate statistics can play a role in determining botanical quality and authenticity Radiocarbon and stable isotope ratio analysis and emerging stable isotope tools NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy NIR (near-infrared) and HPTLC (high-performance thin-layer chromatography) methods for analysis The use of electronic sensing instruments and applications for analysis The contributors also discuss the challenge of identifying a botanical extract or preparation on the basis of its chemical content and discuss quality issues faced by botanicals used as cosmetic ingredients. The book provides you with a range of traditional taxonomic and newer analytical tools to assure the quality authenticity and traceability of botanical raw materials for dietary supplements cosmetics and natural products research. |Botanicals Methods and Techniques for Quality & Authenticity | Chemistry