Adulteration of dietary supplements by the illegal addition of synthetic drugs: a review

T Rocha, JS Amaral… - Comprehensive reviews in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, the consumption of dietary supplements, especially those having plants
as ingredients, has been increasing due to the common idea that they are natural products …

Sexual activity and cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

GN Levine, EE Steinke, FG Bakaeen, B Bozkurt… - Circulation, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Sexual activity is an important component of patient and partner quality of life for men and
women with cardiovascular disease (CVD), including many elderly patients. 1 Decreased …

Suspected adulteration of commercial kratom products with 7-hydroxymitragynine

AG Lydecker, A Sharma, CR McCurdy… - Journal of Medical …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a plant native to Southeast Asia, has
been used for centuries for its stimulant and opium-like effects. Mitragynine and 7 …

Mass spectrometric analysis of pharmaceutical adulterants in products labeled as botanical dietary supplements or herbal remedies: a review

L Vaclavik, AJ Krynitsky, JI Rader - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2014 - Springer
The increased availability and use of botanical dietary supplements and herbal remedies
among consumers has been accompanied by an increased frequency of adulteration of …

Comparison and combination of spectroscopic techniques for the detection of counterfeit medicines

PY Sacré, E Deconinck, T De Beer, P Courselle… - … of pharmaceutical and …, 2010 - Elsevier
During this study, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), near infrared
spectroscopy (NIR) and Raman spectroscopy were applied to 55 samples of counterfeit and …

Integrated analytical assets aid botanical authenticity and adulteration management

C Simmler, JG Graham, SN Chen, GF Pauli - Fitoterapia, 2018 - Elsevier
This article reviews and develops a perspective for the meaning of authenticity in the context
of quality assessment of botanical materials and the challenges associated with discerning …

Chromatography in the detection and characterization of illegal pharmaceutical preparations

E Deconinck, PY Sacré, P Courselle… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Counterfeit and illegal pharmaceutical products are an increasing worldwide problem and
constitute a major challenge for analytical laboratories to detect and characterize them …

Ionic liquids in HPLC and CE: a hope for future

I Ali, M Suhail, MM Sanagi… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The ionic liquids (ILs) are salts with melting points below 100° C. These are called as ionic
fluids, ionic melts, liquid electrolytes, fused salts, liquid salts, ionic glasses, designer …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous analysis of 23 illegal adulterated aphrodisiac chemical ingredients in health foods and Chinese traditional patent medicines by ultrahigh …

XB Wang, J Zheng, JJ Li, HY Yu, QY Li, LH Xu… - journal of food and drug …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an application of ultra high-performance liquid-chromatography-
quadrupole-TOF high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-TOF HRMS) for …

Synthesis of core–shell magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers and detection of sildenafil and vardenafil in herbal dietary supplements

M Ding, X Wu, L Yuan, S Wang, Y Li, R Wang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2011 - Elsevier
An analytical procedure for selective extraction of sildenafil and vardenafil in herbal dietary
supplements (HDSs) has been set up by using the magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers …