Editorial

Society Executive:

President – Paula N. Brown, PhD, Canada Research Chair & Director, Natural Health and Food Products Research Group (NRG), British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Vice-President – Bob Chapman, PhD, Principal Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Treasurer – Susan J. Murch, PhD, Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Secretary – Pamela Ovadje, PhD, Research & Regulatory Affairs, Advanced Orthomolecular Research, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Conference Co-Chair – Paul Spagnuolo, PhD, Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Conference Co-Chair – Krista Coventry, Director of Regulatory Services (East), Source Nutraceutical Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

About the Society

The Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada (NHPRS) is a Canadian federally incorporated non-profit organization founded in 2003 by a collaboration of academic, industry, and government researchers from across Canada. The goals of the NHPRS are; (a) to promote scientifically rigorous research and education on Natural Health Products (NHPs), (b) to develop a national research community that encompasses academic, health professional, government anda broad-base of industry stakeholders, (c) to support national research priorities that best enable the informed and appropriate use of NHPs that are safe and efficacious, (d) to increase the capacity for NHP research and education, (e) to facilitate effective NHP knowledge transfer and translation, (f) to support the use of science-based product quality standards and the use of well-characterized materials and protocols in research and (g) to foster value-chain development through interdisciplinary NHP research collaborations and networking.

Since 2003, the NHPRS has held an annual research conference with workshops to explore emerging issues in the NHP community. The theme of the 15^th Annual Conference is “Innovation at the NHP/Food Interface”. The scientific program is designed to evoke discussion and comtempation as it presents novel approaches, technologies and ideas to complement current practices for the development, use, authentication, study and regulation of NHPs.

Abstract numbers ending in P indicate presentation as a poster. All others are oral presentations.