Food supplements of botanical origin: a multidisciplinary approach to quality.

Deliberations on the part of the experts on this Board have led to the draft of the first Consensus Paper: Food Supplements of Botanical Origin: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Quality, a document that addresses the issues of quality, efficacy and safety of botanicals based on scientific evidence and clinical experience.

Turmeric is the the special focus of the Consensus Paper, which offers scientific evidence about the quality, efficacy and safety of one of the most studied and widely consumed botanical extracts in the world