STIMULATING QUALITY STANDARD BY BIOMARKERS STANDARDIZATION OF HERBAL FORMULATION FOR DAIRY ANIMALS: PACHOPLUS BOLUS.

Stupendous increase has been observed in traditional herbal therapy and thus several concerns regarding the safety and quality of herbal medicines have also been observed. There is need for more advanced techniques of standardization. The advancement of analytical techniques will serve as a rapid and specific tool in the herbal research, thereby, allowing the manufacturers to set quality standards and specifications so as to seek marketing approval from regulatory authorities for therapeutic efficacy, safety and shelf- life of herbal drugs. Regulatory authorities ensure that all herbal industrial products subject to their control are in conformity with quality, safety, efficacy that complies with GMP standards. This will improve the quality of the drug and also motivates the practitioners to get more involved in the standardization process. Pharmacological properties of an herbal formulation depend upon phytochemical constituents present therein; development of authentic analytical methods which can reliably profile the phytochemical composition is a major challenge to scientists.Standardization of phytotherapeutic constituents? Gingerol-6 and Piperine with validated analysis methods will help in ensuring the batch to batch consistency in quality & efficacy of the product on commercial scale