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The American Herbal Products Association has released its most recent GMP-compliance tool, "Good Documentation Practices: A Guide for the Dietary Supplement Industry." This 68-page manual explains the principles of good documentation practices, provides step-by-step instructions for many documentation-related processes and provides numerous examples and templates that can be modified for use by industry companies. The manual focuses on documentation systems in the context of manufacturing, packing or holding dietary supplements. Although the principles and many of the procedures and forms overlap with documentation practices used by drug and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-registered companies, they are also relevant to food and food ingredient facilities. For further information: www.ahpa.org