Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional

O mercado de matérias primas para indústria de fitoterápicos

2016; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5935/2446-4775.20160006

Autores

Rafaela Alves Castro, Adriana Lenita Meyer Albiero,

Tópico(s)

Rural Development and Agriculture

Resumo

The objective of this work was to accomplish a data research about the suppliers of raw material of one of the medium sized phytotherapy industry, and classifying them according to their geographic region and trade representativeness.Data, thus obtained, were compared with the related literature to measure the position of Brazil as a producer related to the international competition.The assessed industry obtains 25 active ingredients of 12 different suppliers to produce its medicine.Brazil and Germany represent, each one, 34% of the suppliers with only 4 qualified companies.However, whereas German companies provide the industry with 14 raw material (56%), Brazilian producers supply only 5 kinds of active pharmaceutical ingredients (20%).It was noticed that Brazil has a reduced business participation in the herbal drug market in the world.Investment in training,

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