The VDC (Drugs-and Chemicals Association) is a branch association based in Hamburg/Germany. Their members are importers, exporters, transit traders, distributors, processors and producers of a large variety of products and product groups, such as: Chemicals, active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients, food/nutritional supplements, food-and feed additives, herbal medicinal drugs, raw materials for fruit-and herbal teas, dried plant raw materials for feed, spices and – last but not least – essential oils, extracts, concretes, resinoids, absolutes and oleoresins. The companies of the essential oil sector of this association are important suppliers to the flavour- and fragrance industries worldwide. VDC is one of the founding members of the EFEO.