AAMPS
AAMPS – Association for African Medicinal Plants
Standards is a non profit company registered in
Mauritius dedicated to the development of quality
control and quality assurance standards for
African medicinal plants and herbal products.
"Although sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands
contain approximately 60 000 plant species – roughly
a quarter of the world's total – only 83 of the worlds 1100
leading commercial medicinal plants are African in origin.
This situation will not change unless Africa, like India and
China, prepares internationally recognised medicinal plant
standards."
Professor Kobus Eloff, Chairman of AAMPS – Association
for African Medicinal Plants Standards and Head of the
Phytomedicine Programme, University of Pretoria,
Republic of South Africa.
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