GMP for Botanicals

The long awaited book on Good Manufacturing Practices with a Nuts-and-Bolts approach to provide a no-nonsense and practical support for the industries and laboratories in the field of botanicals.
In this edited volume, leading academics and industrial scientists have contributed with various aspects of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and novel methods for quality production of botanicals, their standardization, international regulatory status and related approaches for their implementation in the field of herbal medicines.
The vast of body of knowledge incorporated in this volume will be useful to herbal medicine manufacturers, faculties of pharmacy as well as the serving scientists engaged in Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and drug development from natural products.
• Provides guidelines on GMP for botanicals
• Provides a practical view on the production of botanicals
• Explains the quest for GMP in herbal medicines
• Identifies critical areas in the production and quality control of botanicals
• Explains regulatory affairs governing herbal medicine usage of different countries
• Focus on quality control and standardization of botanicals in the ambit of GMP
• Newer aspects for evaluation of botanicals with mass spectroscopy, capillary electrophoresis and other newer techniques
• Explain proven strategies with useful examples in the GMP for botanicals
• Extensive references to each chapters in his context of herbal GMP

EDITOR'S: Robert Verpoorte and Pulok K. Mukherjee
ISBN: 9798190078855
YEAR: 2003 – First Edition, 2008 - Reprint, 2010 - Reprint
PAGES: 385
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English