Risk assessment of plant food supplements and other herbal products containing aristolochic acids using margin of exposure (MOE) approach

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Rozaini, Diaz, Leolean Nyle, Wesseling, Sebastiaan, Rietjens, Ivonne M. C. M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/62998/1/Risk%20assessment%20of%20plant%20food%20supplements%20and%20other%20herbal%20products.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/62998/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19440049.2016.1266098?needAccess=true

After the incidences of induction of aristolochic acid nephropathy after consumption of herbal weight loss preparations that accidentally contained aristolochic acids (AAs), several countries defined national restrictions on the presence of AAs in food, including plant food supplements (PFS) and her...