Adulterated pharmaceutical chemicals in botanical dietary supplements: novel screening approaches

Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Liu, Yan ^a   Lu, Feng ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adulterant; botanical dietary supplements (BDS); chromatography; hyphenated techniques; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029283351     PISSN: 07930135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revac-2016-0032     Document Type: Article

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