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Sep 16, 2026
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
What I find interesting is this is more of a trend But it's supported with a lot of really interesting legislative things that are coming about.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
In our last week's botanical medicine update, the Botanical Drug Development Act, which was introduced by Representative Lauren Boebert, she's from Colorado.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
She put in some really interesting legislation, which I really hope passes there also is a wonderful request the food and drug administration is requesting information and this is basically a public input on accelerating the development of botanical drug products and because they want to update their 2016 botanical drug guidance and the FDA is seeking feedback on handling complex multi-compound mixtures which is a wonderfully wonderful title for formulas botanical formulas and many of these come from traditional Chinese herbal medicine and Ayurvedic medicine.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
We also have some wonderful complex herbal formulas that come out of the eclectic tradition here in the United States.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
What they're wanting is they want to establish quality benchmarks and leveraging what they call real-world evidence with public comment.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
And this is really an incredible body through the European Union.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
And I have signed up for this, but it's a virtual online workshop on September 25th.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
And this will directly compare U.S. and European regulatory hurdles and pathways for herbal, medicinal, and botanical drug products.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
And of course, this is not new.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
When I started this botanical adulterous prevention program, the very first article we published was an article by the late, great Stephen Foster, botanist and herbalist and author, called A Brief History of Adulteration of Herbs, Spices, and Botanical Drugs.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
And his brief history, which was published in Herbogram, and it's available to anybody for free on our website.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
All you have to do is register.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
This brief history goes back 2,000 years to Greco-Roman times, documenting different cases from the literature on adulteration of herbs, spices, or botanical drugs.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
And the point was to show people that adulteration and fraud is not something that just happens in the modern natural products or dietary supplement industry, but it's been something that's been plaguing society and humankind for thousands of years, probably since the beginning of commerce.
Mark BlumenthalGUEST
Because, you know, there's fraudulent olive oil, there's fraudulent wine, there's fraudulent all kinds of stuff, because there's people out there who don't really care about integrity and ethics and the conditions.
Thomas HowardHOST
Right.
Thomas HowardHOST
There is a lobby out there saying like, hey, we should legalize these botanical drugs vis-a-vis cannabis, kratom.
Thomas HowardHOST
I don't know if mushrooms are defined into it, but that's not really a botanical.
Thomas HowardHOST
It's a fungus, but still.