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Redefining Quality - Quality Issues with Herbs
❑ Content of Specified Actives Marker Compounds
❑ Chemical analysis of herbal products is difficult because:
✓ Little chemical information is known about herbal medicines.
✓ High chemical complexity of herbal medicines.
❑ For example, gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) of the common
medicinal herb Cinnamon revealed over 90 volatile components, only 60 of
which were chemically identified.
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