{"id":25,"date":"2014-09-05T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:40:24","slug":"networks-of-labs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/science\/networks-of-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Networks of laboratories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Fotolia_47031253_M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-172 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Fotolia_47031253_M.jpg\" alt=\"natural supplement\" width=\"482\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Fotolia_47031253_M.jpg 1694w, http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Fotolia_47031253_M-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Fotolia_47031253_M-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a>Analysing botanicals for beneficial or harmful compounds, contaminants, markers (identity or other) or determine if products have been irradiated is often challenging. A network of laboratories s is available to perform quality-controlled testing of most botanicals used in the EU.<\/p>\r\n<p>Preparations for ring-tests are ongoing.<\/p>\r\n<p>Laboratories interested in joining the network, participating in future ring-tests or updates on activities should contact EuroFIR AISBL Secretariat (secretariat@eurofir.org).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><em>Case study<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong>\u00a0Company A claimed a\u00a0botanical contained a compound that had thus far been considered synthetic. Most experts disagreed with the claim, but there was no\u00a0conclusive evidence.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>PlantLIBRA laboratory network:<\/strong>\u00a0Set up a large sampling effort, with plants of verified origin and standardised extraction, to prove the substance was not present naturally in the plant.<\/p>\r\n<p>Brunella Carrat\u00f9 (Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0 &#8211; ISS, IT) organised the network during the course of the PlantLIBRA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysing botanicals for beneficial or harmful compounds, contaminants, markers (identity or other) or determine if products have been irradiated is often challenging. A network of laboratories s is available to perform quality-controlled testing of most botanicals used in the EU. Preparations for ring-tests are ongoing. Laboratories interested in joining the network, participating in future ring-tests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/562"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurofir.org\/plantlibra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}