Development of the Plant Extract Industry and Market Forecast
In 1994, the United States enacted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which formally recognized the use of plant extracts as a dietary supplement. In 1994, the U.S. Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was enacted, officially recognizing the use of plant extracts as a dietary supplement, and the plant extract industry grew rapidly.
Since the 21st century, the botanical extract industry has entered a golden period of development. This stems from the strong demand for plant extract products driven by the improvement of living standards and health consciousness on one hand;
On the other hand, it benefits from the application of more advanced plant extraction technologies (such as enzymatic extraction, ultrasonic extraction, supercritical extraction, microwave extraction, membrane separation technology and other new), which have greatly improved the production efficiency.

Development history of plant extract industry
In the early 1980's, the trend of returning to nature started in Europe, America and other developed countries, and people's concern and rejection of chemical synthetic products with side effects gradually increased, and the natural and safe plant extracts were returned and greatly respected, and the industry emerged.
1994, the United States enacted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which formally recognized the acceptance of plant extracts The use of plant extracts as a food supplement has led to the rapid development of the plant extract industry.
China has a long history of Chinese medicine, and medical personnel have attached importance to the analysis of plant properties and medicinal properties since ancient times.
By the 1970s, some domestic pharmaceutical plants began to use mechanical equipment to extract plant ingredients, but this was only as a production part of drug manufacturing and did not develop into an independent industry. after the mid-1990s, with the deepening of the opening to the outside world, foreign trade began to flourish and the plant extract industry, which was less constrained by policies, began to develop.
Since the 21st century, the plant extract industry has entered a golden period of development. This, on the one hand, stems from the improvement of living standards and health consciousness driven by the strong demand for plant extract products; on the other hand, it benefits from the application of more advanced plant extraction technologies (such as enzymatic extraction, ultrasonic extraction, supercritical extraction, microwave extraction, membrane separation technology and other new), which greatly improves the production efficiency.
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