Vegetable fat from pharmaceuticals production as a raw material for the chemical industry
EUROMED, SA is a producer of standardized extracts of herbs and natural active ingredients for the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries. Some of the products manufactured by EUROMED, SA are the extracts of valerian, ginkgo, ginseng and grape seed among others.
The production process from which the by-product is obtained, consists in the extraction of the active principles of the vegetable plants with solvent. Once the extraction is done, the solvent is removed, which is later decanted to remove most of the water and to obtain the vegetable fat residue that is managed as a