, many of the secondary metabolites produced by plants are used by pharmaceutical industries (since these bioactive compounds trigger a pharmacological or toxicological effect in humans and animals), in cosmetics, nutrition, for the manufacture of drugs, dyes, fragrances, flavors, dietary supplements. ...
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Furthermore, adopting“defined media”where the supplements are synthetic and meet the primary purpose of eradicating the possibility of contamination from derivative sources, is a common way to resolve the challenge of only employing human derivation for media supplements. ...