Ethical Naturals Inc., a leading botanical extract supplier, has recently commissioned their new QC and R & D lab, with Dr. Xianguo He as Laboratory Director.

Dr. Xianguo He has a strong reputation in the botanical industry for his pioneering work in phytochemistry. He was one of the earliest scientists to develop standardized extracts from botanicals in the U.S.

In 1992 (after three years as a visiting professor at the University of Washington) Dr. He began to work as Laboratory Director for East Earth Herb, where he accomplished substantial work in this field. (Dr. He’s specialty is the purification, structural elucidation and biosynthesis of natural products from plants and microorganisms).

Dr. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed and published papers on the subject of plant phytochemistry and analysis. These include an invited 35-page review paper for the Journal of Chromatography on HPLC-MS for studies of botanical extracts, and papers relating to the chemistry of Echinacea, Ginkgo, Kava and several medicinal mushrooms.

Cal Bewicke, President of Ethical Naturals, stated: “We are very lucky to be able to work with a Laboratory Director of Dr. He’s reputation and standing. Dr. He is working to build the highest levels of detail and rationale into our ProfileProvenTM quality assurance system, and he will play a key role in our goal of building new levels of knowledge and integrity into the U.S. supply of botanical raw materials. Both ENI and our customers will receive many benefits from this work.”

Dr. Xianguo He is the newly commissioned
Laboratory Director for Ethical Naturals, Inc.