As a consequence of the growing popularity of ibogaine and iboga extracts, an increasing number of vendors are offering iboga root bark, iboga extracts and ibogaineHCL on the internet. The origin of the materials, conditions of chemical processing, as well as the purity of the product and potential contaminants are often unknown. Taking iboga materials of unknown purity and composition, or materials that contain contaminants can imply additional risks to the use of iboga(ine).

As a risk reduction initiative, ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service) has started a collaboration with the Catalan biomedical research institution IMIM (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques) and harm reduction initiative Energy Control of the NGO ABD (Asociación Bienestar y desarrollo), in which we will collect samples of iboga materials and analyze them with a process called
High Performance Liquid Cromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS-MS) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS)to obtain data about alkaloid content, purity and eventual contaminants.

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