Start date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Start time: 11:00 AM CDT (Chicago) | 6:00 PM CEST (Paris)
The supply of botanicals has never faced more challenges, from the effects of surging demand for adaptogens and immune-support ingredients during the pandemic to disrupted shipping from Asia and the eternal threat of adulteration. And that’s even before we get to the global threat of climate change, socioeconomic changes in key botanical growing regions and the opportunity/ challenge (depending on your perspective) of plant cell cultivation of key botanicals attempting to replace plants in the ground. This webinar will bring together key stakeholders from across the botanical supply chain to share insights and best practice to ensure supply, demand, and quality standards are met.
Travis Borchardt Vice President Product Integrity & Compliance Nature's Way Travis Borchardt has 24 years of experience as a dietary supplement industry leader, with a demonstrated history of setting the bar for product quality and compliance; helping earn the following titles: NSF International Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s) Certification, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) GMP Certification and Quality Assurance International (QAI) National Organic Program Certification. He established and now maintains a world class ISO accredited testing laboratory (chemistry, microbiological, molecular, and physical testing) and appeared on the PBS documentary Frontline to discuss best practices for botanical ID testing. Travis has a multitude of research, innovation and product development experience for products sold as dietary supplements, OTC homeopathic drugs, OTC monograph drugs, cosmetics, and foods. Travis holds a degree in Food Science and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Dr. Thomas Brendler Founder / CEO Plantaphile Dr. Thomas Brendler is a scientist and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the field of natural product development, registration, and licensing, for medicine, food, and cosmetics. He is an expert in botanical research, product innovation, regulatory affairs, and sourcing of raw materials. He has contributed to the development and implementation of quality standards, herbal pharmacopoeias, and scientific publications for several organizations and agencies, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Centre for Development of Enterprise, and the International Trade Centre. He is a co-founder and former director of the Association of African Medicinal Plants Standards, a non-profit organization that promotes the sustainable use of African plants. He holds a PhD in Botany from the University of Johannesburg and has published more than 50 papers and books on topics related to ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, phytotherapy, and natural product regulation. Dr. Brendler is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, a US Pharmacopoeia expert committee member, and a board member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and the American Botanical Council. In 2023, he co-founded the Southern African Botanical Product Association (SABPA). He is also affiliated with Traditional Medicinals, a leading herbal tea company in the US, as Principal Scientist R&D.
Stefan Gafner, PhD Chief Science Officer American Botanical Council Stefan Gafner, PhD, is currently Chief Science Officer of the American Botanical Council, an independent, nonprofit research and education organization. He is also Director of the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program, a large-scale collaborative program to educate members of the herbal and dietary supplement industry about ingredient and product adulteration. Prior to working for ABC, Gafner served as a Director of Analytical Chemistry in the R&D department of natural personal care products company Tom’s of Maine.
Gafner received his degree in pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, University of Berne, in Berne, Switzerland. He obtained a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois – Chicago in the College of Pharmacy’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. Gafner is author or co-author of over 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications and holds 5 patents. He is a member of the advisory board of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) and of the editorial boards of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology and Planta Medica.
Frank Jaksch Chief Executive Officer Ayana Bio Frank Jaksch serves as Ayana Bio’s Chief Executive Officer and is a member of its Board of Directors. As founder and former CEO of ChromaDex (NASDAQ: CDXC), Frank has more than 25 years’ experience developing plant bioactives and natural ingredient solutions in the life science, food, beverage, and dietary supplement spaces. He has built an ingredient and end consumer product business from the ground up, ultimately taking the company public on NASDAQ.
Having been immersed in the world of natural products for decades, Frank understands the significant challenges encumbering the space. To date, sourcing health and wellness natural products from agriculture has proven unsustainable and unwieldy; and product quality has suffered from adulteration largely owing to supply scarcity and costly development expenses. At the helm of Ayana Bio, Frank seeks to modernize the health and wellness sector and in so doing provide affordable and reliable ingredients. He believes that Ayana Bio’s technology platform is key to developing a scientific solution to reliability and cost.
When he isn’t busy trying to make the world better with science, you can find Frank shredding the trails on his mountain bike or first tracking the slopes of Mammoth with his family.
Stephen Daniells, PhD Editor-in-Chief NutraIngredients-USA As Editor-in-Chief of William Reed in North America, Stephen overseas its market leading brands including NutraIngredients-USA.com and FoodNavigator-USA.com. His journalism has been recognized by the American Herbal Products Association (2015 Special Award for Journalistic Excellence), and the American Society of Business Publication Editors (2019, 2020, 2022). Stephen also acts as the editorial consultant and chair of William Reed’s Probiota & Probiota Americas events, the NutraIngredients-USA Sports & Active Nutrition Summit, and leads the NutraIngredients-USA Awards program.
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