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摘要

For some time now, the ATC has considered the many and varied proposals put forward by environmentalists and other interest groups on the need for conservation of essential oil producing plants. More recently, there have been calls for the ATC to ban the sale of certain essential oils produced from species that are now considered threatened or endangered.Clearly it is not in the best interest of any aromatherapy manufacturer or supplier to destroy populations of threatened and endangered plants by continuing to sell oils produced from them. Nor is it in the interest of professional aromatherapists to loose oils of importance to their therapeutic armoury. Therefore a long-term strategy needs to be put into place today, in order to protect the future of aromatherapy.