GMP for Botanicals

Description

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

About the Editors – Prof. Dr. Robert Verpoorte is the Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy/Plant Cell Biotechnology at the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He is author/co-author of 460+ scientific papers and 3 books. He is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Natural Products, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts, Biotechnology Letters, Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture, Annals of Magnetic Resonance, Mahidol University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Phytothérapie, Journal of Natural Remedies, Transgenic Research and Fitoterapia, Associate Editor of Phytochemical Analysis, Editor of Journal of Ethnopharmacology and Phytochemical Reviews. He has served as vice-chairman and chairman of the committee of the Phytochemical Society of Europe.  Dr. Pulok K Mukherjee is a well-known personality in the field of botanical research. He is working at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and is involved in research on screening, isolation, formulation, evaluation and standardization of botanicals. He has to his credit over 100 research papers and one patent. He is the author of best-selling book QUALITY CONTROL OF HERBAL DRUGS – An Approach To Evaluation Of Botanicals. He is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Natural Remedies, J. Pharmaceutical Education, J. Pharmaceutical Research, Phytotherapy Research, Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine. He is an active member of various international organizations including, Drug Information Association (DIA), USA, International Society of Ethnopharmacology (ISE), Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) etc.