In the first four months, Ningbo's plant extract industry quietly rose, with an export volume of US $26.58 million to more than 40 countries

Ningbo plant extract industry develops rapidly According to the Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, in the first four months of this year, the city's export of plant extracts reached US $26.58 million, an increase of 9.3% year on year, and it was exported to more than 40 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea Plant extract is a kind of product formed by using modern extraction and separation technology to obtain and concentrate one or more components from fruits, dual-purpose plants, Chinese herbal medicine and other raw materials These products are widely used in pharmaceutical raw materials, health products, cosmetics, food additives and other fields In recent years, a number of plant extract enterprises such as green health, Yujian and Lihua have sprung up in our city Their products mainly include grape seed extract, turmeric, ginseng dry extract, Ginkgo biloba extract, blueberry extract and Lycopodium extract Ningbo lvzhijian Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd is the first "taster" of plant extract industry in our city In 2012, the company's products passed the EU GMP certification and became the first Chinese enterprise in the plant extract industry to enter the EU drug market The company has established a natural medicine technology innovation team with 32 members The team focused on the extraction process of Taxus chinensis and the deacidification technology of high acid value Wormwood Leaves, and made major breakthroughs The annual sales revenue of products based on these technologies exceeded 160 million yuan In recent years, green health ranks the third in the national plant extract export industry, with an output value of more than 400 million yuan A group of local enterprises in Ningbo, represented by Lihua, have accelerated technological innovation, attracting world-famous food and health products and cosmetics manufacturers such as Amway, Herbalife and L'Oreal to place orders Ningbo traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd participated in the formulation and revision of relevant standards The production proportion of high-end products exceeded 60% and the annual output of pure curcumin products exceeded 200 tons, making it the largest curcumin production enterprise in the world "This market is very huge, the huge market demand allows enterprises to develop rapidly." Said the head of Ningbo traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd With the export volume of plant extracts in China increasing year by year, the United States and other countries pay more attention to plant extracts, and the quality supervision is more and more strict For example, 29 categories of pesticide residues are listed in the EU law, and there are more than 300 restrictions on pesticide residues of products involved in plant extracts Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau reminded relevant enterprises in Ningbo to strengthen quality supervision while developing new products, especially to meet the requirements of importing countries for some key raw materials.