Lim, Xin Yi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-3166
Ram, Sanyogita https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5774-1972
Scahill, Shane https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5350-696X
Barnes, Joanne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-8433
Funding for this research was provided by:
Auckland Medical Research Foundation (1224004)
University of Auckland
Article History
Accepted: 8 July 2025
First Online: 8 August 2025
Declarations
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: X.Y.L. is a doctoral candidate studying the contributions of the natural health products (NHPs) industry to pharmacovigilance for NHPs. S.R. and S.S. have no conflict of interest to declare. In the last 3 years, J.B. has received: royalties from Elsevier and SpringerNature in respect of authorship of reference texts on herbal medicines; travel expenses and/or conference expenses from United States Pharmacopeia, UK Drug Safety Research Unit, University of Mississippi, Southern Cross University, International Society of Pharmacovigilance and the South African Botanical Products Association in respect of invited meetings/conference presentations; non-financial support (clinical trial supplies) from Achieve Life Sciences and NZVAPOR (both 2022–2024) as a co-investigator. J.B. is an Editorial Board member of Drug Safety. J.B. was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.
: Open Access funding enabled and organised by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and its Member Institutions. This manuscript forms part of the doctoral research of X.Y.L. X.Y.L. is a recipient of the Auckland Medical Research Foundation Maclaurin & Barham Doctoral Scholarship (1224004). No other funding was received for this review.
: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
: This is a scoping review. No ethical approval is required.
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: All authors contributed to the idea for the article and developed the literature search strategy. X.Y.L. performed the literature search, study screening, selection, and data extraction. X.Y.L. drafted the article and J.B., S.R. and S.S. critically revised the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.