Good Agriculture and Collection Practices

Botanical agricultural, collection and manufacturing practices have wide-ranging impacts on product quality, native and regional communities and the environment. AHPA's Guidance on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices for Botanical Materials provides a template for small and large growers, harvesters, and processors to implement and document best practices. The guidance and accompanying assessment tools help the industry ensure that herbal raw materials used in consumer products are accurately identified, not adulterated with contaminants that may present a public health risk, and fully conform to all quality characteristics for which they are represented.
 

GACP-GMP Guidance

• AHPA GACP-GMP Guidance Document
   

GACP-GMP Individual Assessment Tools

• Operations Categories
• Botanical Identity and Quality Assessment Tool
• Cultivation Assessment Tool
• Wild Collection Assessment Tool
• General Farm Standards Assessment Tool
• Harvest Assessment Tool
• Post-Harvest Handling Assessment Tool
• Further Processing Assessment Tool
• Food Facility and Farm Mixed-Type Facility Assessment Tool
• Dietary Ingredient Supplier Assessment Tool
• GACP-GMP Definitions and Appendices
• All GACP-GMP assessment tools (zipped)
   

Educational Tools

• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Tea
• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Tea (中文)
• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Tea (Español)
• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Botanical Raw Materials
• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Botanical Raw Materials (中文)
• Avoiding inadvertent pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination - Botanical Raw Materials (Español)