Insights

Walk into a well-run botanical lab and you will not find one reference standard on the shelf. You will find many, each labelled for a single plant. Turmeric has its ow...

Run an HPTLC plate incorrectly, and you'll know right away the bands smear, the solvent front runs crooked, something visibly fails. But run it perfectly, and you can ...

Our last two posts established what a botanical reference material is and how it differs from an ordinary test sample. This post answers the question that naturally fo...

If you've read our first post on what a botanical reference material actually is, you already know a BRM and a test sample aren't the same thing. But in day-to-day con...