Abstract
In the past years the market of medicinal plants and plant-based products have been changed significantly. Globalisation is gaining strength even in medicinal plant industry since the former local medicinal plants are distributed worldwide through the Internet. National rules regarding medicinal plants and herbal medicinal preparations are also developed in a greatly differing way in certain countries. On the one hand, strict regulation of medicinal products results in unreasonable hurdles in, on the other hand, underregulation of certain product categories leads to the existence of products with dubious quality. Processed medicinal plant products are shifting from the category of medicines to the food sectors and according to the strengthening health conscious behaviour novel products categories are invented (functional foods, fortified foods, etc.). The aim of this chapter is to present an overview of the major product categories and of the regulation and market characteristics of certain countries.
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This research was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Program’. I owe special thanks to Dr. Botond Lajos Borcsa and Klára Horváth-Boros for their precious help in preparing this manuscript.
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Csupor, D. (2015). Herbal Medicinal Preparations in Different Parts of the World. In: Máthé, Á. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9810-5_16
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