70% of the medicinal materials contain toxic pesticide residues which exceed the European tolerance standard

At present, traditional Chinese medicine still accounts for a large proportion of the Chinese medicine market Officials from the Ministry of Health said that the annual scale of China's traditional Chinese medicine industry reached more than 410 billion yuan in 2012, with more than 9000 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine However, many consumers did not guide the industry's standardized development in China Due to the lack of supervision of Chinese herbal medicine industry, it is difficult to ensure the safety of herbal medicine planting process A prominent phenomenon is that toxic pesticide residues in the sale of medicinal materials, the formation of "medicine in medicine" situation According to the third-party test data recently released by green peace, 48 out of 65 drug samples from seven traditional Chinese medicine brand companies have been tested for pesticide residues These residual pesticides may have serious consequences for human beings, such as long-term contact with drugs with chlorpyrifos residues may affect the development of children's nervous system, and the results of this sampling show that the presence of this substance has been detected in 18 samples Some commonly used Chinese medicine also detected traces of the use of high-risk pesticides, which are strictly forbidden to be used in the cultivation of medicinal materials For example, "carbofuran" on the list of prohibited drugs is illegally used in the cultivation of honeysuckle price, wolfberry price, etc., and the sales of this kind of poisonous herbs include Tongrentang, Yunnan Baiyao and other famous businesses.