New Approaches in Risk Assessment of Drug and Food

W2-1 Safety assurance for the dietary supplement ingredients of plant origin Hoonjeong KWON(Department of Food and Nutrition and Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)Abstract:Dietary supplements need to show statistically sound evidence for the claimed health effect, and this often requires high dose of the material which in turn raises the safety concern regardless of whether it has been traditionally used or not, since it frequently exceeds the traditional use. HFF material can be derived from the traditional food sources, medicinal plants, or from novel materials. It can also be purified compound, whole crude extract, or in betweens. These wide spectra of HFF materials present the difficulties in introducing the unique safety assurance scheme.