Health care enterprises should check Ginkgo biloba extract and illegal additives

On June 4, the State Food and Drug Administration issued a supplementary inspection method for Ginkgo biloba drugs According to the inspection method, illegal activities such as changing the extraction process and illegally adding Ginkgo biloba drugs in the production process will be detected On June 9, the General Administration held a press conference again, requiring health food enterprises using ginkgo biloba and extract as raw materials to start self inspection immediately Recently, through flight inspection, the General Administration found that in order to reduce production costs and seek illegal interests, some pharmaceutical manufacturers changed the production process of Ginkgo biloba extract from dilute ethanol extraction to 3% hydrochloric acid extraction without authorization, resulting in the decomposition of effective ingredients of Ginkgo biloba drugs and the reduction of drug efficacy However, according to the current drug standard inspection method, it could not be found Wang Tiehan, a spokesman for the State Administration of drugs, said the newly released supplementary test method is a new method specially developed by the State Drug Inspection Agency for the study of hydrochloric acid extraction process and illegal addition of other substances As long as hydrochloric acid extraction process and illegal addition of other substances are used, they can be directly detected He pointed out that during the tracking of Ginkgo biloba extract Market use, the General Administration found that some health food enterprises also use it as raw materials, which will lead to potential safety risks of health food To this end, the General Administration issued Circular No 19 of 2015, namely the circular on law enforcement inspection of enterprises using ginkgo biloba extract to produce health food The reporter learned that the circular requires all health food enterprises using ginkgo biloba extract to self check from five aspects: first, whether to purchase Ginkgo biloba extract with hydrochloric acid process; second, whether to use Ginkgo biloba extract with hydrochloric acid process to produce health food; third, whether to use Ginkgo biloba and its extract in violation of the approved process and formula; fourth, whether to use it Fifth, whether to produce Ginkgo biloba and its extract products without health food number Wang Hong, director of the third Department of food safety supervision of the General Administration of food safety, told SciTech daily that all health food production enterprises, which have any illegal act such as changing the extraction process without authorization, illegally adding related substances, purchasing and using hydrochloric acid process Ginkgo biloba extract, should follow the inspection method in the announcement on Issuing the supplementary inspection method for Ginkgo biloba drugs (No 66, 2015) The raw materials of Ginkgo biloba extract and the health food produced by it were tested She stressed that the enterprise self inspection and recall of defective products should be completed before June 15, 2015, and relevant information should be made public while reporting to the local provincial food and drug regulatory authorities.