DOI: 10.1055/s-00000058

Planta Medica

Issue 06/07 · Volume 84 · April 2018 DOI: 10.1055/s-008-39845 Special Issue Quality Control

Editorial

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Glasl, Sabine; Khan, Ikhlas A.: Quality Control of Herbal Drugs and Preparations

Perspectives

350
Länger, Reinhard; Stöger, Erich; Kubelka, Wolfgang; Helliwell, Keith: Quality Standards for Herbal Drugs and Herbal Drug Preparations – Appropriate or Improvements Necessary?

Mini Reviews

361
Gibitz Eisath, Nora; Sturm, Sonja; Stuppner, Hermann: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography in Natural Product Analysis – An Update

Reviews

372
Abdel-Tawab, Mona: Do We Need Plant Food Supplements? A Critical Examination of Quality, Safety, Efficacy, and Necessity for a New Regulatory Framework
394
Zovko Končić, Marijana: Getting More Than You Paid For: Unauthorized “Natural” Substances in Herbal Food Supplements on EU Market

Natural Product Chemistry and Analytical Studies

Original Papers

407
Tankeu, Sidonie; Vermaak, Ilze; Chen, Weiyang; Sandasi, Maxleene; Kamatou, Guy; Viljoen, Alvaro: Hyperspectral Imaging and Support Vector Machine: A Powerful Combination to Differentiate Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa) from Other Cohosh Species
Supporting Information
420
Pezzei, Cornelia K.; Schönbichler, Stefan A.; Hussain, Shah; Kirchler, Christian G.; Huck-Pezzei, Verena A.; Popp, Michael; Krolitzek, Justine; Bonn, Günther K.; Huck, Christian W.: Near-infrared and Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Techniques for a Fast and Nondestructive Quality Control of Thymi herba
Supporting Information
428
Schmiderer, Corinna; Lukas, Brigitte; Ruzicka, Joana; Novak, Johannes: What Else Is in Salviae officinalis folium? Comprehensive Species Identification of Plant Raw Material by DNA Metabarcoding
434
Zhao, Dake; Shi, Yana; Zhu, Xinyan; Liu, Li; Ji, Pengzhang; Long, Chunlin; Shen, Yong; Kennelly, Edward J.: Identification of Potential Biomarkers from Aconitum carmichaelii, a Traditional Chinese Medicine, Using a Metabolomic Approach
Supporting Information
442
Nikzad-Langerodi, Ramin; Arth, Katharina; Klatte-Asselmeyer, Valerie; Bressler, Sabine; Saukel, Johannes; Reznicek, Gottfried; Dobeš, Christoph: Quality Control of Valerianae Radix by Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) Spectroscopy
Supporting Information
449
Hou, Jinjun; Feng, Ruihong; Zhang, Yibei; Pan, Huiqin; Yao, Shuai; Han, Sumei; Feng, Zijin; Cai, Luying; Wu, Wanying; Guo, De-an: Characteristic Chromatogram: A Method of Discriminate and Quantitative Analysis for Quality Evaluation of Uncaria Stem with Hooks
Supporting Information
457
Hou, Jin-Jun; Guo, Ji-ling; Cao, Chun-Mei; Yao, Shuai; Long, Hua-li; Cai, Lu-Ying; Da, Juan; Wu, Wan-Ying; Guo, De-An: Green Quantification Strategy Combined with Chemometric Analysis for Triglycerides in Seeds Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Supporting Information
465
Frommenwiler, Débora Arruda; Kim, Jonghwan; Yook, Chang-Soo; Tran, Thi Thu Trang; Cañigueral, Salvador; Reich, Eike: Comprehensive HPTLC Fingerprinting for Quality Control of an Herbal Drug – The Case of Angelica gigas Root
Supporting Information
475
Czigle, Szilvia; Tóth, Jaroslav; Jedlinszki, Nikoletta; Háznagy-Radnai, Erzsébet; Csupor, Dezső; Tekeľová, Daniela: Ginkgo biloba Food Supplements on the European Market – Adulteration Patterns Revealed by Quality Control of Selected Samples
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