<div dir="ltr">Forwarding this update from the American Herbal Products Association (a Maryland-based national herbal products trade association) reminding us of the importance of looking at both the possibilities and the challenges of new technologies that could be used to test the identity of botanicals in products in the food, supplement, and Natural Health Products industries. <div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Patricia De
Angelis</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">US Fish
& Wildlife Service</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">AHPA</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahpa@ahpa.org">ahpa@ahpa.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:23 PM<br>Subject: AHPA Update: DNA experts caution against Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) pitfalls<br><br><br><h1 style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:20px;line-height:1.25em;font-family:"open sans";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(228,112,30)">"Incidental DNA fragments" may be misinterpreted using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)</h1><h2 class="edn_subTitle" style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;font-family:"open sans";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(130,130,130)">A caution to industry and regulators</h2><p class="gmail-meta_text gmail-no_margin" style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"open sans";vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(124,124,124)">Published: Wednesday, October 19, 2016</p><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">This article by leading DNA experts details challenges and pitfalls of DNA analysis used to verify the identity of herbal ingredients.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">"As the industry struggles to make use of DNA testing amid widely divergent claims and opinions on the readiness of this new technology to enter the pantheon of reliable testing methods, examining the strengths and limitations adds an important component to the conversation," said AHPA President Michael McGuffin.</div></div><br><a href="http://ahpa.org/News/LatestNews/TabId/96/artmid/1179/articleid/723/Incidental-DNA-fragments-may-be-misinterpreted-using-Next-Generation-Sequencing-NGS.aspx">http://ahpa.org/News/LatestNews/TabId/96/artmid/1179/articleid/723/Incidental-DNA-fragments-may-be-misinterpreted-using-Next-Generation-Sequencing-NGS.aspx</a><br><div><div id="gmail-m_-8550896900140279076rootDiv"><div><div align="center"><div align="center" style="max-width:602px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><tbody><tr><td><br></td><td align="center" valign="top" width="600"></td><td><img alt="" width="1" height="5" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><img src="http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?a=1101334774265&r=3&c=bedb35b0-bf21-11e3-8f6b-d4ae529a8612&d=1126172204310&ch=bf8e3200-bf21-11e3-8f83-d4ae529a8612&ca=e369343b-a7da-44c6-904f-7231984d4983&o=https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif" height="1" width="1">
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