Volume: 42 Issue: 3
Essential oils, their quality assurance, management and stakes of CSIR-CIMAP (India): Past and future perspectives
Year: 2020, Page: 181-199, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v42i3.Lal
Received: Oct. 30, 2020 Accepted: Dec. 28, 2020 Published: Dec. 31, 2020
The essential oil’s quality in the 21st Century might become the mainstay of ‘green consumerism’ creating a niche market for food, flavour, fragrance, pharmaceuticals, and lately aromatherapy. The oil obtained from a specific aromatic plant entails complex quality characteristics, like sensory satisfaction (odour value), physical conditions, chemical profile/composition, and allied features. This is imperative to make natural essential oils more remunerative with low cost of cultivation, more attractive in national and international markets with superior quality and competitively cheaper prices, and more conducive for internal consumption with abundant production. A large number of both exogenous and endogenous factors, such as seeds, planting materials, edapho-climatic conditions, and herbi-cultural factors, like, pre-and post-harvest management, down-stream processing, etc. tend to influence the quality of oil, deliberate adulterations of oil not with standing. Moreover, most of the time during essential oil production, human assault on ecology or environment defeats the cause of sustainable use of natural and or domestic plant resources.
India is a vibrant producer and supplier of natural essential oils to the world market. It has to play even a more dominant role in the production and processing of essential oils beyond 2000 AD to capitalize on the advantages of the current economic liberalization of globalization under the new regime of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Therefore, quality assurance, i.e., compliance with a set of specification or standards of commercial essential oils based on the philosophy of the Total Quality Management (TQM) involving customer orientation, process control, and constant improvement of quality coupled with ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certifications must be achieved by taking due care at different vital stages of essential oil production and processing. These stages as well as quality management of essential oils about (i) realization of in situ quality of the plant material chosen, (ii) enrichment or value addition of the oils, (iii) rectification of oils produced, and (iv) warding off from adulteration or inadvertent mixing, have been critically described in this presentation. Suggestions have also been made to make the essential oil eco-friendly products. However, a couple of vital questions remain to be answered by the essential oil industry and public agencies alike for achieving the ultimate goals of TQM of essential oils in India.
Keywords: Chemical profile, Essential oil, Insect-repellent, Quality, Specific certification
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