Distinguished Scientist John Cardellina Joins
Botanical Adulterants Program
The ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Program is pleased to announce
the addition of John H. Cardellina, II, PhD, as a technical consultant to the
BAP. John is a highly respected and renowned natural products and botanicals
expert. He most recently worked as a member of the R&D group at the herb/spice
and flavor company McCormick & Co., Inc., where he conducted research on
the quality and consistency of herbs/spices and the development of new flavors.
From 2002 to 2007, John served as an expert chemist in the Screening
Technologies Branch of the National Cancer Institute. Prior to that, he acted
as vice president, botanical science and regulatory affairs, for the Council
for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a leading industry trade group. John developed
CRN's comprehensive botanicals agenda, intended to guide member companies in
the manufacture of high-quality, and safe, beneficial herbal products. Before
joining CRN in April 1998, John was a senior investigator and head of the
Natural Products Chemistry Section in the Laboratory of Drug Discovery,
Research and Development at the National Cancer Institute. John has published
more than 195 scientific papers in peer-reviewed professional journals and has
lectured extensively on issues related to natural products research and
botanical products. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the
American Society of Pharmacognosy, which he has served as President between
2000 and 2001; he also serves on the scientific advisory board of the American
Botanical Council. He is the chair of the Board of Directors of the American
Herbal Pharmacopoeia and the Board of Directors of the American Society of
Pharmacognosy Foundation.
In
addition to other publications on adulteration of specific botanical
ingredients and extracts, John will be working on a Lab Guidance Document for
analytical methods to authenticate so-called “grapefruit seed extract” (GFSE)
and detect synthetic antibacterial compounds which have frequently been shown
to be found in analyses of GFSE, per an extensive review article
published by the Program in HerbalGram 94
in 2012.