Issue 12, 2011
From the journal:

Food & Function

The PlantLIBRA Project: how we intend to innovate the science of botanicals†‡

Luca Bucchini,a   Alejandro Rodartea  and  Patrizia Restani*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Hylobates Consulting srl, Via Tarsia 61, Rome, Italy
E-mail: lucabucchini@hylobates.it, alejandrorodarte@hylobates.it
Fax: +39 0698 30 9396 28
Tel: +39 0698 9396 30

b Dept. Pharmacological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Balzaretti 9, Milano, Italy
E-mail: patrizia.restani@unimi.it
Fax: +39 0250 31 8284
Tel: +39 0250 31 8371/350

Abstract

The main aim of the EC-financed R&D project PlantLIBRA (PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment) is to foster the safe use of food supplements containing plants or botanical preparations, by enabling science-based decision making by regulators and stakeholders. To make informed decisions, competent authorities and industry need more accessible and quality-assured information, as well as better tools (e.g., databases) and procedures for safety and benefit assessments, supported by broadly accepted methodologies. Consequently, PlantLIBRA is working to develop, validate and disseminate data and methodologies for risk and benefit assessment of plant food supplements, and to implement sustainable international cooperation. International cooperation will help ensure the quality of botanicals imported in the EU. Moreover, the project will provide data on intake by conducting a harmonized consumption survey. Existing composition and safety data will be collated into a meta-database. New analytical data and methods will be investigated and validated. The consortium is working closely with competent authorities and stakeholders.

Graphical abstract: The PlantLIBRA Project: how we intend to innovate the science of botanicals

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1FO10150A
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
21 Jul 2011
Accepted
17 Nov 2011
First published
21 Nov 2011

Food Funct., 2011,2, 769-773

Permissions

Request permissions

The PlantLIBRA Project: how we intend to innovate the science of botanicals

L. Bucchini, A. Rodarte and P. Restani, Food Funct., 2011, 2, 769 DOI: 10.1039/C1FO10150A

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements