Supplement active component identification required for expiration dating -- researcher.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
BOTANICAL PRODUCT EXPIRY DATING REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF ACTIVE INGREDIENT said Dennis Awang, PhD, University of Ottawa, at a Jan. 27-28 meeting of the Drug Information Association in Washington D.C. Awang, speaking on "strength" and "dose" determination for heterogeneous botanicals, said: "If you don't know what the active principles are, if you don't know what is responsible for the therapeutic or clinical activity, I don't know how expiry dating" can be included in packaging.