Natac joins American Botanical Council's Adopt-an-Herb Program

The natural products and biotechnology company, Natac is the latest member to join the American Botanical Council’s Adopt-an-Herb Program. Headquartered in Spain, the company recently agreed to support the program by ‘adopting’ the olive (Olea europaea). Its three-year commitment will help ABC keep its HerbMedPro database up-to-date with the latest scientific and clinical research on olives. HerbMedPro is an interactive and comprehensive database, which provides access to important scientific and clinical research data underlying the use of herbs for health.

"ABC is deeply grateful to Natac for their adoption of olive," said ABC founder and executive director Mark Blumenthal . "Their participation in this program will ensure that information on olive preparations in the HerbMedPro database will stay current, all while supporting ABC's nonprofit educational mission. It seems that almost every week or month there are new studies coming out on the health benefits of consumption of olive oil or olive extracts, making this an especially timely adoption."

ABC’s Adopt-an-Herb Program aims to collect, organise and disseminate traditional and science-based information on herbs, medicinal plants, and other botanical-based ingredients. The Council encourages companies to “adopt” one or more specific herbs for inclusion and ongoing maintenance in the HerbMedPro interactive database. Each adopted herb is continuously researched for new articles and studies, ensuring that the database stays current and robust. The result is an unparalleled resource for consumers, researchers, healthcare practitioners, educators, media, government agencies, members of industry, and others, available via ABC's information-rich website. With impartial, and evidence-based records, it provides online access to abstracts of scientific and clinical publications on more than 250 commonly used medicinal herbs. Herb records in the database vary in size from those with a very large amount of published data — such as Ginkgo biloba, with more than 1,000 summarised entries and links — to Acacia catechu (cutch tree or black catechu in the pea family), with fewer than 50. Each abstract is also summarised in only one sentence, thereby saving a significant amount of time for the user.

Natac joins 15 other herb and plant-based ingredient companies including SFI, NaturoPathica, Vita-tech International, Mars Botanical, RFI, Organix South Inc, San Francisco Herb & Natural Food Co, Halls, The Meaning of Tea, and Europharma.