Chinese herbal medicines are frequently exposed to "pesticide residues exceeding the standard"

On July 1, Greenpeace, an international environmental protection organization, released the report on pesticide residues of traditional Chinese medicine in overseas markets, saying that samples of Chinese medicine products produced in China in the markets of seven countries, including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, were tested and found to contain a variety of pesticide residues, even pesticides classified as highly toxic or highly toxic by the World Health Organization, most of them The pesticide residues in the samples exceed the EU limit Last week, Greenpeace just released the "traditional Chinese medicine: investigation report on pesticide pollution of traditional Chinese medicine", saying that more than 70% of the products sampled by nine major Chinese medicine brands in China (including the prices of Panax notoginseng, honeysuckle, wolfberry, angelica and Atractylodes macrocephala) contain multiple pesticide residues It contains not only pesticide residues, but also pesticides banned by the state Yesterday, a person from Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd responded to the Morning Post reporter that "the products mentioned in the report are not produced by Yunnan Baiyao, but by the next branch of Yunnan Baiyao." At present, Yunnan Baiyao has sent relevant products to the headquarters inspection agency for testing, "the test results have not come out," the person said Wang Jing, director of Greenpeace food and agriculture project, told the morning post that the detection standard of Greenpeace pesticide residues is based on the MRL standard of the European Union (the maximum pesticide residue standard of the European Union), and the detection method is the internationally accepted pesticide residue detection method Even for the most stringent EU MRL standards, Greenpeace does not believe that this means absolute security In contrast to the Chinese standard, according to Wang Jing, there are very few pesticide residue standards in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia of 2010 edition, which only limit three pesticides (DDT, BHC and PCNB) on two medicinal materials (Astragalus and licorice prices), "(for other pesticides) is almost a missing state" A Chinese medicine expert said that there are hundreds of pesticide products on the market in China There are too few pesticide testing varieties and standards stipulated in the Pharmacopoeia, and the pesticides banned by the state should be included in the Pharmacopoeia The expert said that in any country, pesticide residues of plant drugs are inevitable, and enterprises and governments should face rather than avoid problems He put forward three suggestions: first, reduce or even remove pesticide residues of traditional Chinese medicine through research on new technologies; second, some traditional Chinese medicine is easy to absorb pesticides, and corresponding pesticide residue detection standards should be formulated for these traditional Chinese medicine; third, there are a large number of processing and extraction processes for the finished medicine, in which pesticides and heavy metals can be removed, but the direct Decoction of traditional Chinese medicine strictly controls the use of pesticides Wang Jing advocated reducing or even not using chemical pesticides, but using modern pesticides such as physical and biological control to replace chemical pesticides "The government should make an action plan to reduce the use of pesticides, and gradually improve the pesticide residue standards, and then control pesticides with terminal matching." In the past few years, China has invested 21 billion yuan in transgenic research and development, far more than 700 million yuan in ecological agriculture, according to the survey report of traditional Chinese medicine: pesticide pollution of traditional Chinese medicine.