the Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements

Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements

Background and Fitness for Purpose for Quantifying Selected Kavalactones

Steven Dentali, Ph.D. AOAC Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA 22 September 2017

Kavalactones Begin with Kava Kava is…a lot of things.

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A Polynesian name for the plant known as Piper methysticum G.Forst (Piperaceae), intoxicating pepper. A domesticated plant cultivated in the South Pacific Islands with scores of cultivars.

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The beverage prepared from the plant.

The associated ceremony.

Root and rhizome raw material for ingredient manufacture. An ingredient for dietary supplement finished products. A variety of finished dietary supplement product forms.