Botanical Safety Consortium
From Vision to Reality in Five Years
The Botanical Safety Consortium (BSC) provides a sound scientific basis for integrating existing botanical safety and toxicity information with the latest toxicological tools. This multipartite, multi-stakeholder international effort brings together key scientific experts to enhance the botanical safety toolkit and bring clarity to botanical dietary ingredient assessments.
The BSC was launched in 2019 via a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the non-profit Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI Global). This MOU was renewed in August 2025, extending this agreement for five more years.
The BSC is led by a Steering Committee of cross sector experts, with nine Technical Working Groups in key scientific areas leading specific tasks.1 For additional information about the Botanical Safety Consortium, contact HESI Global at botanicalsafety@hesiglobal.org.
Related Information
- Botanical Safety Consortium to Hold First Meeting in May (May 2020)
- FDA Announces Convening of the Botanical Safety Consortium (November 2019)
- 1Mitchell, C. A., et al. 2025. From Vision to Reality: Five Years of the Botanical Safety Consortium. Pharmaceutical Biology, 63(1), 800–818.