BO4121 QAQC Quality Assurance/Quality Control
This course combines analytical rigor of quality control with the whole-system aspects of quality assurance in an industry context. Students experience quality assurance practice in a problem-based format relating to the herbal industry. They explore QA as an attitude, a way of working, which not only improves businesses but the way people work and live. The lab emphasizes the practice of QC procedures and protocols through a comparison of herbal products using analytical equipment and methodology including GC, HPLC, spectrophotometry, and microbiology.