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... Vitamin and Supplements > Quality Standards Issued for Testing Herbal Products .tcheader { background-color:#94ABBE; border-bottom:#003399 solid 1px; border-right:#003399 solid 1px; border-left:#99ccff solid 1px; border-top:#99ccff solid 1px; color:white; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11px; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing: .5pt; padding:1px; padding-left: 1px; text-decoration:none; display: block; } body{ font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 4px; } a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } Home Health and Gourmet Food Food Nutrition Vitamin and Supplements Quality Standards Issued for Testing Herbal Products By: NIST on Mar 30 2006 18:48:52 Dietary supplementsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the first suite of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) in a planned series of reference materials for botanical dietary supplements.The dietary supplement industry has exploded in the past decade to about 29,000 products, with about 1,000 new products introduced each year, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

In 2001 NIST began working with the FDA and the National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH/ODS) on a series of SRMs of popular botanical dietary supplements.

Manufacturers can use these materials for quality c...

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