04 Feb 2020 --- Understanding and ensuring the quality of botanical supplements such as turmeric is a fundamental requirement for safe supplementation usage. This is according to a consensus paper that addresses rising concerns regarding quality, efficacy and safety of supplements. This paper comes at the behest of the Advisory Board on the Quality of Botanical Supplements, created by Italian botanical ingredient producer Indena and Scharper, a pharmaceutical company marketing food supplements exclusively to the medical industry.