Chinese medicine is frequently difficult for companies to return goods

33 pesticide residue tests are a difficult hurdle for Chinese medicine companies

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The dandelion medicinal material of a certain supplier was returned by the manufacturer because the pesticide residue of fipronil exceeded the standard.

An oldenlandia diffusa from a certain producer was returned because the pesticide residue phorate exceeded the standard and was unqualified.

The chrysanthemum of a marketer was sent to a third-party quality inspection agency for inspection, and the result showed that the pesticide residue endosulfan exceeded the standard.

So, why do these Chinese medicinal materials have excessive pesticide residues? In fact, every event or phenomenon has a trace to follow.

This batch of dandelions with excessive pesticide residues has never been sprayed with pesticides or fertilizers during their growth period, and they have not undergone any manual management.

And why does oldenlandia diffusa from another producer exceed the standard of phorate pesticide residue? The reason is the same as that of dandelion medicinal materials.

Although many medicinal materials are not the same as dandelion or oldenlandia diffusa, it is an adverse chain reaction caused by the intercropping mode.

A pharmaceutical supplier told the author that the price of traditional Chinese medicinal materials is now transparent, and that manufacturers implement a bidding system in the procurement of raw materials, and there is fierce competition in terms of quality and price.

In order to get the bids, many suppliers usually adopt ultra-low quotations that have been carefully calculated.

If it is said that in terms of raw material procurement, whether the corresponding extracts, ingredient content and sulfur of Chinese medicinal materials exceed the standard, some buyers who have been in the industry for a long time and have some practical experience through sniffing, tongue tasting, and hand If you can feel the stubble or cross-section of the medicinal materials, if you can still judge this, then, for them, in terms of pesticide residues, for them, it is a blind spot that is intangible and invisible, and ultimately only determined by the instrument.

In addition, compared with food, the intake of traditional Chinese medicine for patients is very small, and the general dosage is calculated in grams.

Food is different.

However, from the overall perspective, food and drug safety is a major strategic policy of the country.

In other words, any reform must allow different voices to exist, but it cannot therefore affect the process and direction of the reform.

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Regarding food safety, how are the values ​​of pesticide residue standards at the international level customized?

Having said that, some people may have some questions like this:

At present, the government of our country attaches great importance to the safety of people's food and medicine, which is a good thing.
However, I don’t know what is happening in other countries in this regard? Do they spray pesticides and fertilizers on their crops? Has food safety been passed, and will there be excessive pesticide residues?

In fact, the issue of pesticide residues in food does not belong to a certain country.
It is a worldwide issue.

If pests and diseases occur during agricultural production, pesticides must be used for prevention and control.
This is true of Chinese agricultural products, and the same is true of foreign agricultural products.
The development of the times is phased, and the resulting contradictions are also mutually or contradictory.
If we must compare modern society with the barbaric era in the past, then every phase of reform and invention is beneficial to mankind.
On the one hand, there are countless, but the disadvantageous side also exists objectively.

For example, if the crops or fruits and vegetables are not sprayed with pesticides, the yield may be reduced by 30% to 70%, and even some varieties will have no harvest.
However, when pesticides and fertilizers are sprayed, its residues affect human food safety.
For now, in order to ensure a bumper harvest and stable supply of agricultural and sideline products, no country can completely divorce the use of pesticides and fertilizers in growing crops.
According to statistics, even in some developed countries, their pesticide use exceeds 1.
5 to 2.
5 times that of developing countries.

It's just that the national conditions of some developed countries are different from ours.
Their land is mostly concentrated in the hands of some farmers, and it is easy to control the use of pesticides and fertilizers, while the land in our country is divided into the hands of ordinary people.
It is not convenient for large-scale, standardized, and intensive unified management of planting for two acres of acres.
Therefore, in crop planting and the use of pesticides and fertilizers, the phenomenon of indiscriminate and indiscriminate indiscriminate spraying has formed.
Crops and medicinal materials often appear to be the direct cause of excessive pesticide residues.

Then, in terms of pesticide residue management, how did some developed countries set the safety limits in this regard and how did they base them?

Generally speaking, the limits of pesticide residues in food safety, as far as general rules are formulated at the international level, are tailored based on the toxicology of the corresponding pesticides, the metabolic residues of related agricultural products, and the dietary intake of the people.

For example, if the safety factor of a certain pesticide residue in a food is 50 milligrams (mg/kg), it means that the food may have a safety risk, then the risk will be expanded or increased to 100 when the standard is formulated.
If it is more than twice, the quantitative limit of the food is set and compressed at a value not exceeding 0.
5 milligrams (mg/kg).
This is one of the reasons why pesticide poisoning rarely occurs among the people in terms of food and drug safety.

Our country’s corresponding countermeasures for agricultural and sideline products, including pesticide residues in traditional Chinese medicines, are actually formulated on the basis of internationally accepted risk assessment techniques and methods.

In this way, since the government has formulated such rigorous standards for pesticide residues in terms of food and drug safety, should we be able to safely consume those pesticide residues that exceed the quantitative limit? of course not.
After all, whether it is grains, oils, crops, or traditional Chinese medicine products, it is still not good to take pesticide residues regularly.
Those things that accumulate in the body over time will only harm and not benefit.

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Where is the way to improve the quality of traditional Chinese medicine products and avoid excessive levels of 33 pesticide residues?

In recent years, the government has given great support to the development of the Chinese medicine industry, and good news continues.

On December 18, 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the State Drug Administration, and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly issued the "National Plan for the Construction of Authentic Medicinal Materials Production Base (2018-2025)".

On October 20, 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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On February 9, 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued an important notice on "Several Policies and Measures for Accelerating the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Characteristics".

On March 6, 2021, when the Supreme Leader visited the representatives of the medical and health circles who participated in the Fourth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, they emphasized that the protection of the people’s health should be given a strategic priority for development.
Regarding national food and drug safety as the top priority at work.

In the face of food and drug safety, what should we do in the future? What should the industry do to improve the quality of our traditional Chinese medicines, especially in terms of pesticide residues? Where is the way out for our Chinese medicine in the future? In this regard, the author has the following opinions:

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The government will continue to increase control over those pesticide manufacturers and sales companies, and restrict the production of traditional highly toxic chemical pesticides and the sale of prohibited pesticides that are correspondingly harmful to the social environment, ecological balance, and food safety.
Support the development and market circulation of new natural pesticides and biological pesticides that have low toxicity, high efficiency, no residues, slow action and long duration, and no pollution to humans, animals, and the environment.

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In view of the disorganized and disorderly cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials by retail farmers and the fact that they pay more attention to economic income but ignore the actual situation of quality, relevant government departments will continue to provide guidance and publicity in this regard in the future.
Those with intensive, large-scale and standardized GAP planting bases, agricultural cooperatives and industrial alliances dedicated to improving the quality of Chinese medicinal materials will provide strong support to create a better future for the comprehensive development of green agriculture and ecological planting in the Chinese medicine industry.
Conditions and environment.

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In terms of the development of the Chinese medicine industry, the 33 pesticide residue tests in traditional Chinese medicine are not a form but a trend.
Regarding food and drug safety issues, national leaders have repeatedly put forward the "four most stringent" requirements to fight the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
The government has not hesitated to spend hundreds of billions of yuan to provide free treatment for every patient.
Often at critical moments, our country is always considering the people.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the 33 pesticide residue inspection items of traditional Chinese medicine, as an important part of the national food and drug safety, are reflected in the 2020 edition of the Pharmacopoeia, which is an inevitable development of the times.

So, where is the way out for the Chinese medicine industry in the future?

Implement large-scale and standardized green agriculture and eco-agricultural system models on source planting;

To make the enterprise bigger and stronger in production, pay attention to product quality, establish a brand effect in sales, and take the road of high quality and better price;

Let Chinese medicine use facts in terms of its use and efficacy.
This is the only way for our Chinese medicine industry to develop comprehensively and healthily in the future.