<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font size="3">I was forwarded this today.<br></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="3"></font><b><font size="3"><br>Herbal Quality Consortium Publishes Major Article on Black Cohosh Adulteration</font></b><br></span>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(AUSTIN, Texas, May 28, 2013) </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><strong></strong>Interest in the North American herb black cohosh (<em>Actaea racemosa</em>; synonym, <em>Cimicifuga racemosa</em>)
has increased immensely during the past 60 years, and with it,
incidences of accidental and economically motivated adulteration with
lower-cost Chinese species whose scientific names may appear similar. “<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a href="http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/R?i=7QKh3I9LqnX8PZs4s2Npdw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Exploring the Peripatetic Maze of Black Cohosh Adulteration</span></a></strong></span>,” a new report by noted author and photographer Steven Foster, has been published in the latest issue of <em>HerbalGram</em>, the peer-reviewed journal of the nonprofit American Botanical Council (ABC).<sup>1<br><br>READ MORE: http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=24441.0&dlv_id=64105<br></sup></span></body><pre>
Robin Alton Suggs
MoonBranch Botanicals
5294 Yellow Creek Road
Robbinsville, North Carolina 28771
USA
Telephone: 828.479.2788
Email: moonbranch@earthlink.net
Websites:
www.moonbranch.com & www.localharvest.org/store/M16074
Member:
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project; Farm Partner
Green Products Alliance
North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines
North Carolina Goodness Grows/NCDA&CS
United Plant Savers
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau
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