Chinese herbal medicine's false image: serious adulteration in weight-added dyeing by pouring cement

In early July, the State Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter referred to as "CFDA") made a secret visit to five large Chinese herbal medicine markets in China, which showed that a considerable part of the herbal medicines sold in many Chinese herbal medicine markets in China were fake, adulterated, illegal business, illegal processing and other phenomena Because of the wide and complex problems, the quality supervision of traditional Chinese medicine is attracting the attention of relevant departments On July 17, the State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has deployed a special action of "two dozen and two constructions" for drugs across the country, among which cracking down on illegal production of traditional Chinese medicine and rectifying the specialized market of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the key points Yesterday morning, the State Food and Drug Administration held an appointment meeting in Beijing Friendship Hotel to talk about the relevant heads of governments in 17 places, such as Bozhou in Anhui Province and Anguo in Hebei Province, which are all the places where the specialized market of traditional Chinese medicine is located At the meeting presided over by Wu Zhen, deputy director of the State Food and drug administration, not only the 5 secret visit groups of the State Food and Drug Administration in turn showed the participants some chaos in the secret visit in the form of a presentation, but also the heads of the local governments where the 17 professional Chinese medicine markets are located signed the letter of responsibility for the management of the professional Chinese medicine market, so as to standardize the Chinese medicine market The working group of the State Food and Drug Administration secretly visited the presentation, which was obtained by the reporter, showing that counterfeiting, adulteration, illegal operation and illegal processing have become popular in many Chinese medicine markets in China, and constitute a secret "underground kingdom" "Today, we invite 17 local and municipal governments of traditional Chinese medicine (where the market is located) to set questions for you and resolutely carry out rectification Today, we will hold an appointment meeting, which is also the beginning of the rectification of the traditional Chinese medicine market." Wu Zhen said at the meeting According to the work group of CFDA in Bozhou, Anhui, Anguo, Hebei, Chengdu lotus price pool, Qingping, Guangdong, Yulin, Guangxi, five large and medium-sized Chinese medicine markets, the current problems in the Chinese medicine market are universal Only in Bozhou, Anhui Province, the working group has found nine major problems, such as weight gain, inferior quality and so on According to Bozhou's unannounced demo, the working group found that the price of the placenta car, the serious adulteration of the Agkistrodon acutus, the weight gain of the artillery pangolin, the price of porridge, generally increased, while in the Hailong and hippocampus prices, the stomach was filled with dextrin, cement, and so on Insects, such as scorpion prices and woodlouse worm prices, were filled with impurities The working group secretly found that some of the medicinal materials had been extracted and then sold For example, the price of ginseng and American ginseng, the price of pilose antler is very light, the price of Sophora flavescens, Coptis chinensis and Phellodendron amurense are light in color, without bitter taste Staining is also quite serious Bozhou working group found that the prices of saffron (paper fiber dyeing), phellodendron, Prunus mume, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Schisandra chinensis, cinnabar, Zizyphus spinosa and Cornus officinalis were all stained Second best is also popular For example, the price of flat Fritillaria is equal to that of Sichuan Fritillaria, shanmaidong is equal to that of Maidong, Suoyang is equal to that of Cistanche, and other small snakes are equal to that of Bungarus In terms of adulteration, the working group found that there are more than ten kinds of adulterated fake medicinal materials, such as raw sun dried ginseng, apricot, plum and so on In addition, the secret visit group also found that the non-medical part of some medicinal materials seriously exceeded the standard: for example, the price of saponifia was less in thorn and more in stem and branch, the price of Fructus was less in flesh and more in core, etc The working group found that the abuse of pesticides and chemical fertilizers resulted in the decline of the quality of the medicinal materials, the decrease of the curative effect and the change of the appearance of the medicinal materials For example, the price of tuckahoe and Polygonum multiflorum appears woody core, the price of Salvia miltiorrhiza and Astragalus membranaceus hardens and increases Excessive use of sulfur price fumigation is also a problem that can not be ignored, and these medicinal materials include the price of Fritillaria, Yiren, red peony, astragalus, ginkgo, etc In addition, there are dozens of Chinese herbal medicines with serious quality problems, such as the price of Bletilla, the price of mingdangshen, etc The working group found that toxic herbs could be purchased at will in the Chinese herbal market Such as cinnabar price, realgar price, Myrtle price, Myrtle price, cantharis price, etc The working group secretly visited around Bozhou market and found that there was illegal processing, production and processing of herbal pieces "In the field on the right side of the path into Lilou village, we see a lot of medicine dregs The villagers are packing and loading In Jiangtun village, we found three old people cutting herbs with slicer, and some herbs were drying in the open space of the village On both sides of the road in the town of 19li, there are numerous drug dealers, one by one It's two kilometers long " Bozhou secretly visited the presentation In addition to the above problems, the working group visited 12 nearby villages in the Anguo Chinese herbal medicine trading market in Hebei Province and found that some of them were open-air preservation of herbal medicines, and many unlicensed family Herbal Pieces processing workshops were all simple equipment, poor health and poor quality of herbal medicines Taking beiqigong village as an example, the working group found that the Chinese herbal medicine processing households in the village are completely their own individual processing pieces, there is no processing specification and quality assurance in the processing of pieces, and even some processing households have forged the quality certificate of Chinese herbal pieces In the professional market of traditional Chinese medicine in Chengdu lotus price pool, the largest in the western region, the working group not only found that there were exclusive stores and mahogany furniture stores mixed with traditional Chinese medicine and decoction pieces stalls, but also some business owners clearly claimed that there were two kinds of goods with good or bad quality, one cent for one, such as whether there was the price of sulfur Sichuan shell, sulfur free yam, water scorpion, incense added aloe, drug inspection package, etc The working group encountered a small underground workshop for processing Chinese herbal pieces near Wukuai stone, Chengdu It was found that some varieties abused plant growth regulators and pesticides in the planting process, and some varieties were extracted and sold In addition, according to the unannounced visits of the working group of the State Food and Drug Administration in Qingping, Guangdong Province and Yulin, Guangxi Province, most of the above situations exist The problem of "rectifying the storm" is that there are only five places? Is there no other place? No, it's just different " "These problems need to be solved completely They are very serious," Wu Zhen said after the report was completed by the five groups At the meeting, our reporter saw that all the participants were dignified, and from the lineup of CFDA's professional market rectification meeting for traditional Chinese medicine, as Wu Zhen said, "in fact, it is also the beginning of the rectification of traditional Chinese medicine market." According to Wu Zhen, the Chinese herbal medicine market has a long history, with hundreds of years in the short term and thousands of years in the long term Since the 1990s, a large number of traditional Chinese medicine markets have sprung up all over the country From 1993 to 1995, the State Council rectified and closed more than 100 markets of traditional Chinese medicine, making great efforts Only 17 markets of traditional Chinese medicine have been kept In the past 20 years, there has been no new batch, and no more "These traditional Chinese medicine markets are a legacy of history We should cherish, manage and standardize them It's our responsibility " Wu Zhen said "It's time for the government to fight, or our cause of traditional Chinese medicine (market area) may be destroyed in the hands of our generation, which has never had such a serious problem." Wen Zaixing, deputy director of the market order Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the meeting According to the people of Bozhou municipal government, since July 17, the State Food and Drug Administration held a meeting of "two dozen and two constructions", Bozhou held a meeting overnight and set up a special group Bozhou has inspected 5000 stalls and stores and set up a report reward of 1 million yuan, which can reach 200000 yuan in one time Anguo market has signed the responsibility certificate, which not only inspected the exposed products, but also inspected other varieties With the township as the main body, local products and intermediate varieties should be tested "To strengthen daily supervision, we should mainly establish a long-term mechanism, three hands and strict market access Our professional market accounts for more than 1500 businesses, focusing on the market and training Increase media publicity and establish regular media sampling Drugs and food are the scope of publication " A Guangzhou government official attending the meeting said Our reporter learned at the meeting that Yulin City, Guangxi Province, has carried out external and internal rectification of the market, focusing on the investigation and punishment of dyeing artificial weight gain and illegal processing of traditional Chinese medicine 741 business households were investigated and dealt with According to our reporter, in addition to the 5 local government personages interviewed in secret, the other 12 local governments where the Chinese herbal medicine market is located also participated in the symposium, and these places are all over the north and south of China Also at the conference on rectifying the market, the heads of the governments of 17 places where the professional market of Chinese herbal medicines is located signed the letter of responsibility for the management of the professional market of Chinese herbal medicines, and said that they would make every effort to organize and carry out the rectification of the market of Chinese herbal medicines, so as to form a standardized, orderly and healthy professional market of Chinese herbal medicines How to rectify? "First of all, these substandard Chinese herbal medicines have no effect on the disease Second, some Chinese herbal medicines are poisonous and harmful to the body For example, the price of sulfur and the damage to the liver and kidney after eating for a long time Many problems are caused by some expensive and rare medicines, so we dare not prescribe them " An expert from the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper According to our reporter, in 2008, the vertical regulatory drug regulatory system has been abolished, and the power of supervision has reached the hands of the local government For the local government, these traditional Chinese medicine markets solve not only the employment problem, but also the local GDP According to the data, many professional markets of traditional Chinese medicine are the pillar industries of local governments, more than 10% of local GDP And the management of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the similar supervision mode with food, also involves the problem of multi department and subsection supervision From planting to primary processing, processing, circulation and to medical institutions, there are different department supervision How to manage traditional Chinese medicine is still a problem "The regulation of Chinese herbal medicine market is quite special Unlike chemicals, there can be standards The regional differences of Chinese herbal medicine are quite large, so it is difficult to unify the regulation mode of Chinese herbal medicine There will be long-term multi management After the vertical regulation is cancelled, local protectionism will rise And the letter of responsibility is a social management innovation, with flexible means to solve the problems that hard means can not solve " Dr Hu Yinglian of the State Administration College said in an interview with this newspaper For the current problems in the market of traditional Chinese medicine, Wu Zhen said that the current problems of traditional Chinese medicine are mainly those that are more expensive, can be dyed, can increase weight, not all traditional Chinese medicine have such a situation "We can't just see it as a trading market, we should have a special agency to supervise it, a special person in charge of the market management of traditional Chinese medicine, professional inspection equipment, and corresponding financial guarantee The management of traditional Chinese medicine involves the supervision of many departments, which must be organized by the local government Who runs it is responsible because it benefits " Wu Zhen said For the disordered market surrounding traditional Chinese medicine, there are many processing outlets of traditional Chinese medicine, and the environment and conditions are extremely bad Wu Zhen said that the rectification must purify the surrounding environment of traditional Chinese medicine The marketing of traditional Chinese medicine is only a performance, and the key is how to process these herbs In fact, the Ministry of Commerce opened in 2009