Fake and shoddy food and Drug Administration uncovers market chaos of traditional Chinese Medicine
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Last Update: 2013-08-02
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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 secret interview with the presentation, the working group found that the price of Ziheche and Agkistrodon were seriously adulterated, while dextrin and cement were injected into the price of Hailong and Haima In terms of adulteration, the working group found that, for example, raw sun dried ginseng was Adulterated into American ginseng price, dark plum price was adulterated with apricot, plum and other similar adulterated fake medicinal materials 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 medicinal materials sold in many Chinese herbal medicine markets in China were fake, adulterated, illegal operation, illegal processing and other phenomena Due to the extensive 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 the special action of "two dozen and two construction" of drugs nationwide, among which, cracking down on the illegal production of traditional Chinese medicine and rectifying the specialized market of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the key points On July 30, the State Food and drug administration also held an interview meeting on the renovation of the specialized market of Chinese herbal medicines, which was held in Bozhou, Anhui, Anguo, Hebei and other 17 places where the specialized market of Chinese herbal medicines is located At the meeting presided over by Wu Zhen, deputy director of the State Administration of food and drug administration, not only the five secret visit groups of the State Administration of food and drug administration, in turn, showed participants some of the chaos in the secret visit in the form of presentations The presentation shows that counterfeiting, adulteration, illegal management and illegal processing have become popular in many Chinese herbal medicine markets in China, and constitute a secret "underground kingdom" According to the secret visit of the working group of CFDA to five large and medium-sized Chinese medicine markets, such as Bozhou in Anhui, Anguo in Hebei, Qingping in Guangdong and Yulin in Guangxi, 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 the price of Sichuan Fritillaria, shanmaidong is the price of Maidong, Suoyang is the price of Cistanche deserticola, and other small snakes are the price of white snake 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 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 In addition to the above problems, in the Anguo Chinese herbal medicine trading market in Hebei Province, the working group visited 12 nearby villages and found that some of them had the situation of storing herbal medicines in the open air, and many unlicensed family Herbal Pieces processing workshops were all simple and crude equipment, with poor sanitation and materials 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 are very serious and need to be solved thoroughly," Wu Zhen said after the report was completed by the five groups At the meeting, the heads of the governments of 17 regions where the specialized market of Chinese herbal medicines is located signed the letter of responsibility for the management of the specialized 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 "The regulation of traditional Chinese medicine market is quite special After the cancellation of vertical regulation, local protectionism has risen 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 "Determined to resolutely rectify the market, the purpose is for them to return and carry out market rectification under the leadership and organization of the local government." Wu Zhen said.
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