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Article: Herbs & Botanicals overview: Sales continue to suffer as withering confidence and confusion reign supreme amongst consumers and companies search for a little light at the end of this tunnel.(Industry Overview)
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- Nutraceuticals World
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- July 1, 2003
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"Dictionaries provide several definitions for the word chaos. It is generally used to refer to a state of utter confusion. This definition is certainly applicable to the herbal market today. However, in referring to the unorganized state of primordial matter, physicists use the word to mean a state of things where chance is the supreme determinant. This definition, too, is an apt description of the state of herbal products in the United States today..."
The above quote belongs to the late Dr. Varro Tyler, one of the most prominent figures in the herbs and botanicals arena, who used these words in a foreword to the book Herbal Medicine: Chaos in the Marketplace, ...