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 Expert Team > Roy Upton |
 Roy Upton is the President, Executive Director, and Editor
of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, a non-profit
organization dedicated to the development of quality
control standards for botanical products.
He is trained in both Western and Traditional Chinese
herbalism and has been working professionally as an
herbalist for more than 22 years. He is the past president
and current vice-president of the American Herbalists
Guild (AHG). The AHP monographs have been regarded
by many as being the most comprehensive and critically
reviewed works on herbal medicine worldwide.
Roy is also involved with the development of quality control standards for the herbal products industry
as general manager of the California-based herbal company Planetary Formulas, member of the
Standards Committee of the American Herbal Products Association and botanical expert advisory
committees of AOAC International, NSF International, and the United States Pharmacopoeia. Roy
has also authored several books including St. John's Wort and Echinacea in the Good Herb Series
of Keat's Publishing and the Botanical Safety Handbook published by CRC Press. |
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