[MPWG] CONFERENCE: 6th Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals (Apr 30-May 3, Mississippi)

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/ICSB/index.html

6th Oxford International Conference
on the Science of Botanicals (ICSB).
April 30th-May 3rd, 2007, University, MS
Critical Approaches to Pre-clinical Evaluation of Botanicals

National Center for Natural Products Research School of Pharmacy
The University of Mississippi

Sponsored by CFSAN/FDA, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica/CAS, China
and The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR - India)

The National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) within the 
School of Pharmacy at The University of Mississippi is pleased to announce 
a conference on Quality and Safety Issues Related to Botanicals. The 
conference is supported by a cooperative agreement between the NCNPR and 
the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the U.S. Food 
and Drug Administration (FDA) along with Shanghai Institute of Materia 
Medica/CAS, China and The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 
(CSIR - India).

The purpose of this conference is to review, discuss, and explore methods 
for determining the identity, purity, quality, and processing of plants, 
commonly known as botanicals. Topic areas will include such issues as 
authentication, cultivation, collection, and post-harvest practices for 
producing quality plant material, and chemical, toxicological methods for 
quality/safety assessment which lead to the preclinical evaluation of the 
botanicals. Contributed presentations, both oral and poster, are invited. 
Each session will open with a plenary speaker outlining the current 
approaches, limitations, and research needs of the topic area.

Speakers will be leading researchers from industry, academia, nonprofit 
institutions, and government. Each speaker will address current 
approaches, limitations, and research needs.

See the link above for full information on the Conference.