AHPA Botanical Safety Handbook

The Global Kratom Coalition is providing funding support to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) to develop a first-of-its-kind Monograph and Therapeutic Compendium for kratom. Creation of the AHP Monograph will support the safe use of botanical ingredient kratom by providing a nomenclature, identification, handling, and analytical summary among other sections.

AHP's primary goal is to support the safe use of botanical ingredients. The organization aims to make sure that providing guidance in the form of the AHP Monograph could better inform the safe and effective use of kratom. The BSH organization is identifying experts worldwide to collaborate on the Monograph. 

The AHP Monograph is a multiple section publication which will include standards for identity, purity, quality, and testing. The Monograph aims to fill a critical need for kratom and the herbal industry overall. It will offer analytical methodologies that can detect full-spectrum preparations and differentiate these from purified concentrates. It will also establish appropriate use guidelines emphasizing the need to avoid excess, and abusive use and products mislabeled as kratom.