Thursday, October 30, 2008: TLC for Dietary Supplements: Botanicals. Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. The US Pharmacopoeia and the United Natural Products Alliance will be co-sponsoring a special one-day workshop on identification of botanicals using HPTLC. The workshop will be presented by Dr. Eike Reich of CAMAG.  Dr. Reich is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the identification of botanicals using HPTLC. This seminar will be extremely useful for anyone responsible for purchasing, testing or validating botanicals used in dietary supplements, foods, cosmetics and functional beverages. This course offers guidance in translating the information of <621> into a practical methodology and helps you interpret results obtained with compendial thin layer chromatography (TLC) methods within the realm of botanicals. Live demonstrations are incorporated to enhance the content covered in the lectures. For more information, or to register, please visit Web Site: http://www.usp.org/meetings/calendar.html?page=3.