Botanical Adulteration Prevention Program Takes Initiative to Develop Industry-Accepted SOP to Appropriately Dispose of or Destroy Irreparably Defective Botanical Ingredients

At the Rocky Mountain Dietary Supplement Forum in Boulder, Colorado, Mark Blumenthal revealed a new BAPP initiative that strives to get irreparably defective botanical ingredients out of the supply chain.¹ When materials are rejected via appropriate quality control diligence, dietary supplement manufacturers (and other buyers of botanical dietary ingredients) often send the rejected materials back to the supplier in return for credit or a financial refund of the order. While some of these materials can be reprocessed or repurposed to be sold as materials of acceptable quality, other materials, e.g., herbal extracts that have been illegally spiked with conventional drugs or adulterated with food dyes, are deemed irreparably defective. The goal of the initiative is to create a standard operating procedure (SOP) that leads to the destruction of such irreparably defective material in order to prevent it from re-entering commerce. The details of the proposed draft SOP are currently being developed by a committee of experienced food and drug lawyers who are providing legal consulting services in support of the initiative.

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1.     Schulz H. ABC leads effort to make sure rejected raw material is destroyed, not resold. NutraIngredients USA [online]. October 12, 2017. Available at: https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2017/10/12/ABC-leads-effort-to-make-sure-rejected-raw-material-is-destroyed-not-resold. Accessed February 14, 2018.