BOTANICAL ADVERSE EVENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM URGED
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
BOTANICAL ADVERSE EVENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM URGED by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medical Epidemiologist Rossanne Philen, MD, at a Dec. 14-16 conference on botanicals sponsored by FDA and the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine. "Them are more systematic ways of collecting surveillance data than what we have been able to do here in the U.S. for herbal products and nutritional supplements," Philen observed.