[Russian medicinal plants--an inexhaustible source for creating new highly-effective medicinal-prophylactic
A V Vasil'ev1, T P Poloz, N N Sokolov
1Institute of Nutrition RAMS, Moscow.
Voprosy Meditsinskoi Khimii
|July 8, 2000
Abstract:
The status of businesses in Russia and abroad on production of the biologically-active food additives, and in particular is considered on the basis of plant raw. Taking into account the presence in Russia of the richest raw plant market, and in a view of deficit in the country of preventive herbal drugs the development of the long-term state target program of their production and creation of the effective system of standardization and control behind quality, safety and effectivency of operation of these drugs is offered.
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