Alongside methods like pressing or squeezing an organic material in order to get the oils from it, solvent extraction rises to the forefront of procedures. A method that introduces a solvent, varying on what material it is interacting with, helps break down the material into the desired state and is easy to separate from the mixture. In many cases, this process is faster, cheaper, and easier than any existing alternatives, but with its usage, there is a growing concern about how safe it is to use for products that are made for human consumption and how the wastage of such a method is handled. 

How Is The Industry Trying to Improve? 

These raising concerns are a fair judgment, many people are distrustful of hearing chemicals interact with their food or speak out in the concern of how environmentally viable these methods and chemicals are. To which the industry has answered by clarifying, which chemicals are used, highlighting which ones are and are not consumable safe, and working on the production of more environmentally conscious solvents or solvent substitutes. When working on these alternatives, they have to try to replicate or maintain what made solvents so popular. They’re easy to handle, only having to mix them with the compound they wish to break down, have a low boiling point so they can be easily heated and evaporated from the mixture once the wanted compound is separated, and be easy to produce. Many solvents that exist are made in bulk, due to the ease of production and as such are kept accessible to the ever-expanding and growing market. 

The use of solvent extraction isn’t going away with how successful it’s been, but it is still a developing method as new solvents are always in the works, doing their best to meet what the public and companies expect of it. 

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