Botanical Quality Alliance
Quality has roots.
Building botanical quality from the ground up, from cultivation and sourcing through analytical science, global trade and finished ingredients.
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Botanical Quality Alliance
Trust Starts With Botanical Quality
Science-based collaboration for safer, more authentic, and more transparent herbal ingredients.
Our Mission
Advancing Quality Together
The Botanical Quality Alliance brings suppliers, manufacturers, laboratories, researchers, and industry organizations together to strengthen confidence in botanical ingredients.
We champion practical, science-based approaches to quality, safety, authenticity, traceability, and transparency across the global supply chain.
Our Work
Tools for Better Botanicals
Collaborative Programs
Connect across the supply chain to address shared quality challenges and advance meaningful solutions.
Quality Standards
Support robust testing, authenticity, traceability, and transparent practices for botanical ingredients.
Practical Resources
Access guidance and educational materials that help organizations make informed quality decisions.
Focus Areas
Building Confidence Across the Supply Chain
Safety
Promote reliable practices that protect consumers and strengthen responsible sourcing.
Authenticity
Help combat adulteration and mislabeling through credible identification and testing.
Traceability
Encourage clear, accountable pathways from botanical source to finished product.
Transparency
Advance open, evidence-based communication that supports fair competition and trust.
Help Shape a More Trusted Botanical Future
Join a growing alliance committed to stronger quality practices, informed decision-making, and greater confidence in herbal ingredients and dietary supplements.
Collaboration makes meaningful progress possible.
The BQA view
Quality is a system
A botanical can pass an assay and still leave essential questions unanswered.
Was the right species and plant part used? Was it handled appropriately? Is the method fit for purpose? Can the documented quality be sustained at the price being paid?
Botanical quality begins at origin and continues through every link in the chain.
Botanical Quality Alliance
BQA brings growers, processors, exporters, suppliers, brands, laboratories and scientists together to strengthen the links that matter most.
From farm to finished ingredient
Five public pillars connect the work of botanical quality.
Origin
Agriculture, sourcing and traceability.
Identity
Authenticity, specifications and adulteration.
Evidence
Science, analytical methods and safety.
Economics
BCOQ, sustainable supply and procurement.
Trust
Transparency, standards and global trade.
Herb Diagnostics
Find the weakest links before choosing the tools.
Working Groups
Bring the right expertise to a defined challenge.
Shared Learning
Publish practical guidance and build capacity.
Where we are starting
Initial programs
BQA is a needs-driven, herb-by-herb model. The work begins with the problem, not a fixed program.
Botanical Cost of Quality
BCOQ examines the cost layers an authentic ingredient must plausibly recover. It is a screening signal for verification, never proof of fraud or a recommended price.
India Botanical Quality Initiative
A founding origin partnership focused on aligning production capability, documentation and global market expectations.
Botanical Standards Projects
Herb Diagnostics and working groups select the right mix of standards, methods, safety evidence, origin capacity and education.
A sibling institution
BQA and ASA
BQA addresses systemic quality across many botanicals. The Ashwagandha Standards Alliance remains an independent, single-herb alliance focused on ashwagandha quality and science.