2.2.3. ePlantLIBRA

In the area of dietary supplements (FDA definition)/food supplements (EFSA definition) [74], ePlantLIBRA [75,76] presents comprehensive and searchable data describing bioactive compounds specific to plant-based food supplements and botanicals, reporting health benefits, adverse effects, contaminants, and residues. ePlantLIBRA was developed by the PlantLIBRA project (PLANT food supplements: Levels of Intake, Benefit and Risk Assessment, Grant Agreement ID: ID: 245199) [77], which addressed development, validation, and dissemination of data and methodologies for risk and benefit assessment of plant food supplements and botanicals, and sustainable international cooperation in this domain [77].

ePlantLIBRA has the same structure as eBASIS; it is based on a user-friendly, efficient, and flexible interface for searching, extracting, and exporting data including links to the original references [76]. The architecture is based on eBASIS, MoniQA contaminant (FP6 Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the total food supply chain, Grant Agreement ID: 36337), and FERA's HorizonScan databases (https://www.eurofir.org/our-tools/eplantlibra/, accessed on 26 October 2022). A webinar is available (https://www.eurofir.org/our-tools/ eplantlibra/, accessed on 26 October 2022) with short videos covering the functionality of ePlantLIBRA (https://eplantlibra.eurofir.org/Default.asp, accessed on 6 June 2022).

Currently, 45,168 and 117 datapoints are available for composition and beneficial data, respectively, and 55 are specifically addressed to plant-based food supplements or botanicals, e.g., aloe vera extract, borage oil, pomegranate supplement, boswellia products, cinnamon products, dandelion products, and so on (https://eplantlibra.eurofir.org/Default. asp, accessed on 6 June 2022).
