Mohammad Kamil
Zayed Herbal Centre, UAE
Title: Medicinal Plants and Herbal Medicines- Quality Control and Standardisation
Biography
Biography: Mohammad Kamil
Abstract
The challenges are innumerable and enormous, making the global herbal/botanical market unsafe. The talk seeks to enlighten physicians, pharmacists, consumers and stakeholders in botanical medicine on the need to establish quality parameters for collection, handling, processing, manufacturing and production of safe botanicals as well as employ such parameters in ensuring the safety of the global botanical market which is directly linked to the safety of public health.
In the recent years with ever growing commercialization in the field of herbal medicines, there has been an instant demand for quality control of the drugs used in this system. The studies on the identity, purity and quality of the genuine drug will enhance information in checking the adulteration. A set of standards would not doubt be detterent on substitution and adulteration and also an aid for ‘Drug law Enforcement’.
In the present paper an attempt has been made for a sequential study of the Quality Control of Herbal Medicinal Products ( HMP ) starting from Selection of Medicinal Plants ;Good Agricultural Practices (GAP ) Cultivation ;Good Field Collection Practices(GFCP) ; Organized and Unorganized Drugs ;Source and Period of Collection; Identification; Storage ; Chemical Standardisation ; Assay ; Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Pharmacological studies to Clinical Approach , with special reference to maintain Standardisation at each and every stage.Adulteration of unlabled ingredients/hidden ingrediets will be discussed with practical laboratory experience.