Founded in 1915, the Research Institute for Medicinal Plants and Herbs has become the basis of the entire Hungarian industrial medicinal plant research, development and certification. Among its achievements, the research and cultivation of poppy species are significant worldwide. As a member of PannonPharma group, its main profile is the poppy and other medicinal plant impovement breeding and cultivation furthermore the development, testing and manufacture of European and TCM based herbal medicines, cosmetics and agricultural products.