Plant extracts industry in China needs to improve its value

A worldwide boom of return to nature makes the new emerging plant extracts industry quickly grew up and developed into global annual sales of nearly $ 100 billion dollars. If China wants to make greater achievements in this emerging market, it must change the traditional export-dependent model of development. China should start from the control of product quality to achieve sustainable development of the whole industry.

Plant extracts are derived from the material containing the active ingredient. Plant extracts, herbal preparations, the main raw material, and can be used in nutritional supplements, health food, cosmetics and other industries, the core product of natural medicine and health products market. "Pesticide residues, heavy metals, microorganisms and other requirements in the improvement of trade barriers increase; the new demands of the enterprise product certification; labor costs, herbal medicine prices increase the cost of doing business and the new requirements by the state production of corporate environmental, etc., are plant extracts industry in China the next step in the development of new challenges. Chinese plant extract industry is facing the biggest challenge or industry, which includes both the external environment for industrial development, including the problems faced by the industry itself.

The key to the development of plant extracts on product quality control. Product quality, but off as well as fake and shoddy products if you can not put an end to the industrial development will be a deadly threat. Product quality problems of consumer confidence is fatal violence, and from the international development trend, the United States and other Western countries on the quality of supervision of the plant extracts, but also was more rigorous trend.

At present, the world's plant extracts market development speed is very alarming. Statistics show that herbal or plant products, the field of global market size of nearly $ 83 billion, and in all areas of growth is relatively stable, an increase ranging from 3% to 12%. Among them, herbal health care products market, accounting for 1/3 share, including herbal dietary supplements, and herbal functional foods; global herbal products industry contribution of $ 44 billion; herbal beauty products occupy the market's remaining $ 14 billion. Plant products market can be described as a huge global market.

The health industry is known as the fifth technological revolution and the industrial revolution is sweeping the world. China will become the heart of global pharmaceutical raw materials industry. Nutrition industry is the core of the health industry, the plant extract is an important guarantee for the development of nutrition industry, and plant extracts to improve the key to the functions of nutritional products, traditional Chinese medicine plant extracts and nutritional industries laid a solid the basis of the theory and practice.

China's industrial development of the plant extracts, should strive to improve product quality, to expand its influence and improve their international competitiveness. Quality problems is the biggest obstacle of the internationalization of Chinese medicine, extracts industry should speed up the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine production process, strict good quality. Extract production management practices promotes the production of extract standardization and institutionalization of quality standardization. It further expands the market.

The standard construction of plant extracts in China has made good progress. Industry regulatory, policy support and guidance, establishing a standardized planting base, fostering sustainable development of products operating model, improving quality standards and integrating by product and industry to strengthen the industry self-regulation will make the whole industry’s development healthy and orderly.

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