The second market for natural extracts—European

Extract  consumption of European market in 2005 is about $2.5 billion. The European Pharmacopoeia lists extract general rules, 2000 edition collection contains 3 kinds of standardized extract, aloe, senna and belladonna leaf standard extract, and  exploring to extract further specification and classification.According to the inherent quality, divided into quantified extracts and standard extract and purified extracts. Europe has formed a standardized extracts of various medicinal plants, echinacea and valerian, short palm and ginkgo leaves.

  The European Union common treat plant extracts as raw materials of herbal products ,which is one of the world's largest plant medicine market,accounting for 45% of the entire world plant medicine sales.Including Germany, France, Britain and Holland,which have a larger market share.In recent years, the EU herbal medicine market development faster than chemical drugs market.