Mick’s Picks:
Herbs, Neutraceuticals, Supplements

• Aggie Horticulture – Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
  This Aggie horticulture web site provides links to botanical gardens across the United States and a “search” to enable you to find answers to your questions on plants.
  • Texas Master Gardener – Texas County Programs, State Programs, International Master Gardener, Problem Solvers, Publications, Web Links, Search and Plant Answers.
• American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and Therapeutic Compendium 2002
  The primary goal of the AHP is to produce authoritative herbal monographs containing accurate, critically reviewed information on botanicals which can provide guidance in the appropriate use of herbal therapeutics.
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)/ U.S. FDA
  This web site provides the consumer and professional with information on food safety, links to other organizations, press releases, fact sheets.
• Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)
  CRN is a trade association representing more than 80 companies in the nutritional supplements, ingredients and other nutritional supplements industry. CRN is dedicated to enhancing the public’s health through improved nutrition.
• Food Research Institute (FRI)
  The Food Research Institute, in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison maintains a leadership role by identifying and addressing food safety issues to meet community, industry, and government needs.
  • References on Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)
• Gardening Tips for Northeast Texas – Vegetable and Herbs
  Written by Smith County Garden Masters numerous tips on herbs and herb gardens.
• Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
  It is the NGRP’s responsibility to: acquire, characterize, preserve, document, and distribute to scientist users germ plasm of all life forms important for food and agricultural production. This program is within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.
  • National Genetic Resource Program (NGRP)
  • National Plant Germplasm System – This web site provides listings of links to other web sites, both U.S. and international, relating to agriculture, agriculture economics and the USDA-ARS.
• Herbs
  Organic Lifestyles with Texas A&M contributors: Aggie Horticulture, Entomology, Soil & Crop Sciences. Information on varieties, planting, cooking, insects, harvesting, crafts and creations.
• Herbalgram.org – American Botanical Council
  This web site was developed by the American Botanical Council. It provides herbal education research and literature, links & publications.
• Herbal HALL – HerbDotCom
  This web site provides an extensive library on herbs, has a newsletter, and resources available on herbs as food.
• HERBORG – HerbNET
  This web site provides any and every type of information you would ever need on the subject of herbs, whether it be medicines, publications.
• Herb Research Foundation
  The Herb Research Foundation provides information to the consumer about herbs. It has an on-line search feature and they provide up-to-date information on thousands of herbs.
• Institute for Natural Products Research
  The Institute for Natural Products Research carries out a broad range of research on naturally occurring substances of plant origin. Research involves the isolation of chemical structures of new compounds possibly useful as drugs for the treatment of human disease.
• Lloyd Library and Museum
  The Lloyd Library, in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati Libraries Catalog and OhioLINK, has online access through UCLID (University of Cincinnati Library Information Database) and OhioLINK.
• The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF)
  National Council Against Health Fraud web site provides factual information to help consumers discern fact from fiction.
• National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA)
  The NNFA represents the interests of about 3,000 retailers and 1,000 manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of health foods, dietary supplements, natural ingredient cosmetics and other natural products.
• Nutrition – About.com
  This web site from the About.com provides an extensive listing of health issues and topics to answer many of your questions.
• OASIS
  Herbs & Seasonings, Find Items A–Z.
• Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
  Office of Disease Prevention at the National Institutes of Health.
• Quack Watch
  This web site authored by Stephen Barrett, M.D. provides information on health fraud, quackery and intelligent decisions about health fraud.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  The FDA on-line is a source for the consumer to find answers to questions about food, human drugs, cosmetics, animal drugs, and much more information made available through the FDA.
• Worldnutra – International Conference and Exhibition on Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
  The World’s leading commercial and scientific forum for the latest information on nutraceuticals, bioactives, functionality and utilization.