ProFound - Advisers in Development: Full Scope Extensive Reports Professionals

The quality of a product starts long before transformation!

Intercropping Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with Other Crops

Why packaging matters for natural oils (and especially essential oils)

Cleaning a distiller (or any other equipment for example to obtain plant extracts) is not a one-size-fits-all process.

Natural ingredient suppliers: Storytelling and potential ideas?

Getting Ready for Upcoming Trade Fairs: What to Bring (and Why It Matters)

Obtaining the oil that is so important in terms of chemical ecology for plants, a kind of "memory" of that plant life.

Two years before deciding to leave a company I worked for in the natural products area, I had also as a task to lead the Ecocert auditing process internally. And from that experience, I can say: the system is far from random or superficial.

Why flowcharts matter in Quality Control for plant materials and extracts/plant natural products (second post on QC)

Really interesting conversations at Biofach about plant raw materials for infusions, extracts, and other natural products, and one theme keeps coming up again and again: Consistency.

Ginger isn’t just “ginger”; it has chemotypes as we all know. And I believe that’s a marketing advantage.
It matters because:
Your complete chemical profile can be your strongest differentiating point

Circular Economy in Essential Oil Distilleries or Plant Extracts Facilities: Turning Waste into Value.

During an audit in Humpata, Angola, material labelled as Santalum (sandalwood) turned out to be Brachylaena huillensis (muhuhu wood from East Africa). Different species, different regulatory status, different chemical profile.

With natural ingredients/products, sometimes, we talk about quality like it's a fixed target..
It isn't! When someone says "my product is of the highest quality" the next question should be "to whom?"
Quality is defined by who's buying and what they're going to do with it.

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids contamination in plant extracts? Why sorting matters

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are naturally occurring compounds found in certain plant families such as Asteraceae (e.g., Senecio, Jacobaea),
Boraginaceae (e.g., Echium, Symphytum) and Fabaceae (e.g., Crotalaria).