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Types of Chemical markers

• Advanced biotechnological methods.
• Field cultivation (medicinal ergot)

• GAP safeguard against contaminants that may lead to
poor quality in natural products.

• Contaminants include toxins, parasites, microbial
contaminants, fumigants, pesticide residues, manure
fertilizers, solvents, and radioactive contamination.

• All these contaminations lead to Substandard products.