Unit HERBAL PRODUCTS TOSSICOLOGY
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A000578
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Claudia Zadra
- Teachers
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- Claudia Zadra
- Hours
- 28 ore - Claudia Zadra
- CFU
- 4
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Sector
- AGR/13
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Biotransformation of the active ingredients in the complementary medicines and their possible toxic effects. Occurrence of residues and contaminants in medicinal herbs: source, class of contaminants (heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins..) and regulatory limits. Adverse effects of these xenobiotic for the human health.
- Reference texts
- EFSA e EMA Reports C.L. Galli, M. Marinovich, P. Restani – Tossicologia
- Educational objectives
- Students will be offered the knowledge of the most common pollutants in botanicals andd food supplements. In particular, sources of pollution and the ways of contamination.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of chemistry and biochemistry
- Teaching methods
- frontal lectures
- Learning verification modality
- oral discussion
- Extended program
- risk analysis and risk assessment of contaminants present in phytotherapeutic and herbal products. Reference legislation. Classes of contaminants : mycotoxins, cyanogenic glucosides, heavy metals, pyrrolizidine alkaloids, phenylpropanoids. Examples of contamination and transfer into the finished product
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- salute e benessere