Resources
Documents for better botanicals
Read the frameworks, methods and visual explainers that guide BQA’s work.
Knowledge Hub
Resources for Better Botanicals
Explore practical guidance and science-based tools that help strengthen quality, authenticity, traceability, and trust across the botanical supply chain.
Featured Resources
Put Quality Into Practice
Use these starting points to build stronger botanical quality systems and make informed decisions across your organization.
Quality Standards
Learn the principles and expectations that support reliable botanical ingredient quality.
Programs and Collaboration
Discover collaborative initiatives that move testing, traceability, and transparency forward.
Industry Insights
Stay current with perspectives and updates from the botanical quality community.
Resource Library
Build a Stronger Quality System
BQA resources are designed to help every part of the botanical supply chain translate shared commitments into consistent, practical action.
Testing Guidance
Strengthen analytical approaches that support identity, purity, and accurate labeling.
Authenticity Tools
Recognize risks and support methods that help address adulteration and mislabeling.
Traceability Practices
Improve documentation and visibility from source materials through finished products.
Collaboration Resources
Connect with shared learning that advances fair competition and industry-wide trust.
BQA document library
Readable references drawn from BQA’s formation and program materials.
Founding Charter
Purpose, mission, scope, commitments and independence guardrails.
Governance Framework
Balanced representation, review, working groups and affiliation.
Member Commitment
Five principles for organizations participating in BQA.
BCOQ Methodology
Economic plausibility ranges and screening safeguards.
Strategic Horizon
A long-term view of BQA as shared quality infrastructure.
Infographics
Visual explainers for BQA, BCOQ and the origin-to-market bridge.
Herb Diagnostic
The assessment approach that identifies a herb’s weakest links.
Program Toolkit
Standards, methods, safety, economics, origin capacity and education.
Key resource notes
The following summaries help readers understand how the core documents fit together.
Founding Charter
Sets BQA’s purpose, mission, scope and non-certification, non-endorsement and non-price-setting boundaries.
Governance Framework
Explains the Steering Committee, Scientific Advisory Panel, working groups and affiliated alliances.
Member Commitment
Captures the commitments to evidence, symmetry, verification, openness and building on existing work.
BCOQ Methodology
Explains how cost layers, ranges and confidence levels support verification without suggesting a selling price.
Strategic Horizon
Describes possible future roles as data steward, translator, convener and early-warning system.
Infographics
Show how BQA works, how a BCOQ screen prompts verification and how BQA connects origin with destination markets.
Put it into practice
Use the framework
Explore the diagnostic-led quality approach and the BCOQ safeguards that shape BQA’s work.