China food and drug administration carries out special actions to severely punish adulteration of traditional Chinese Medicine

Today, the reporter learned from a press conference held by the State Food and drug administration that the State Food and Drug Administration will carry out a nationwide special action of "two strikes and two constructions" with the main contents of severely cracking down on illegal drug production, cracking down on illegal drug trade, strengthening the construction of drug production and trade norms and drug regulatory mechanism The special action will focus on solving the problems of adulteration of traditional Chinese medicine and illegal drug sale on the Internet It is reported that this is the first major operation in the field of drug safety since the establishment of the State Food and drug administration The operation will be carried out in half a year from July to December this year Li Guoqing, head of the drug and cosmetic Supervision Department of the food and drug administration, said that the most common problems in daily supervision work come from traditional Chinese medicine At present, the main problems of traditional Chinese medicine in China are the small planting scale, the backward production mode, the nonstandard primary processing in the producing area, the use of substandard and inferior medicinal materials by enterprises, and the substitution of illegal extracts for raw materials of medicinal materials Yan Jiangying, a spokesman for the food and drug administration, said the campaign will focus on cracking down on illegal production of traditional Chinese medicine and chemicals We will focus on cracking down on the purchase and use of extracts from illegal channels; cracking down on the use of counterfeit and shoddy Chinese herbal medicines, non medicinal parts of Chinese herbal medicines, and contaminated or extracted Chinese herbal medicines to produce drugs; cracking down on weight-added dyeing and adulteration in the production of Chinese herbal pieces; and cracking down on the sale of packages and labels of purchased and illegally processed Chinese herbal pieces In the aspect of regulating the specialized market of traditional Chinese medicine, it will be strictly prohibited to manufacture and sell fake and inferior traditional Chinese medicine such as dyeing and weight gain, adulteration and falsification; it is strictly prohibited to return the waste of traditional Chinese medicine to the market, sell pieces of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese patent medicine or chemicals, toxic medicine, and protect animal and plant products If there are serious problems in the specialized market of traditional Chinese medicine and the rectification is not effective, it shall be resolutely closed down It is also one of the key contents of this special action to control illegal drug sale on the Internet Due to the concealment and convenience of online transactions, illegal online drug sales, including the illegal release of drug information, exaggeration of efficacy, sale of fake drugs and other issues have become increasingly prominent, which has become a serious social hazard, Li said The UK drug regulatory agency led the establishment of a coalition to strengthen the regulation of online drug sales, involving more than 80 countries around the world The survey results show that 80% of online drug sales have problems, which is basically consistent with China's domestic situation It is understood that at present, China's online drug sales implement a strict access system So far, there are 95 websites approved by the food and drug safety supervision department as websites for selling drugs to individuals For those who have obtained the qualification of Internet drug information service or drug trade, websites that publish false drug information and illegal drug sales will be ordered to suspend business for rectification, and rectification within a time limit until the qualification of Internet drug trade is revoked All websites that are not qualified to engage in illegal drug sales shall be transferred to the relevant departments for handling Whoever sells counterfeit drugs shall be transferred to the public security organ for criminal responsibility It is reported that in early August, the food and Drug Administration will jointly launch an action against illegal drug sales on the Internet with the state Internet Information Office, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and the State Administration for Industry and commerce.