New progress has been made in the preparation of processing standards for Chinese herbal pieces!

[trends of pharmaceutical network industry] Chinese herbal pieces are the basis for ensuring the healthy development of Chinese medicine clinical medicine and Chinese medicine industry Shortly after Anhui Provincial Food and Drug Administration issued the "publication and distribution of the 2019 edition of the processing specifications of Chinese Herbal Pieces in Anhui Province", the State Pharmacopoeia Commission announced that it held the review meeting of the processing specifications of Chinese Herbal Pieces in Beijing on October 15-16, 2019, and the relevant committee members, experts, personnel of relevant units and staff of the Commission attended the meeting It is reported that the meeting discussed the format and content of the preparation of the national standard for preparation of Chinese herbal pieces, formed a consensus of expert review, and considered the unified and coordinated information of the relevant standard for preparation of Chinese herbal pieces With the promotion of the preparation of the processing standards of Chinese herbal pieces, the supervision and management of Chinese herbal pieces will be further strengthened, the quality control system of Chinese herbal pieces will be improved, and the vast number of patients using Chinese herbal pieces will be better in the future   The author understands that in order to strengthen the quality management of Chinese herbal pieces, since 2013, the Pharmacopoeia Committee, in accordance with the work deployment of the General Administration and the pharmaceutical registration department and the planning of "China Pharmacopoeia 2015 edition compilation outline", combined with the development status and regulatory needs of Chinese Herbal Pieces industry, has organized and carried out the "national Chinese Herbal Pieces processing specification technology research" industry special Preparation of the processing standard of decoction pieces Subsequently, the national standard for processing Chinese herbal pieces (I) (Draft for comments) was published According to the objectives of work planning, the Pharmacopoeia Committee adheres to the principles of "unified planning", "seeking common ground while reserving differences" and "step-by-step implementation", follows the steps of top-level design, implementation of planning, assignment of tasks, research drafting, submission of materials, technical review, consultation, promulgation and implementation, and orderly carries out the preparation of processing specifications for batch varieties   Among them, the technical research work of batch varieties processing specification is mainly in accordance with the way of scientific research subject, and 10 domestic scientific research institutes and universities with many years of scientific research foundation in processing field are organized as the leading research drafting unit, 16 provincial drug inspection institutions and 8 traditional Chinese medicine Pieces production enterprises are cooperative and participating units, and 217 kinds of pieces processing specifications and 20 kinds of commonly used processing technologies are jointly completed Specification and operation procedures, research and drafting tasks of five commonly used processing auxiliary material standards and technical research work of variety draft In 2016, the Pharmacopoeia Committee completed the preliminary technical review, supplement after review, and secondary review of 217 submitted draft varieties and operating procedures It is reported that at that time, a total of 92 varieties passed the technical review of the expert meeting, which is also a great progress in the preparation of the national standard for processing Chinese herbal pieces The Pharmacopoeia of 2020 edition has new regulations on Chinese herbal pieces Among them, we should "focus on improving and standardizing the processing methods of Chinese Herbal Pieces" In accordance with the requirements of the newly established state drug administration, the National Pharmacopoeia Commission has entrusted relevant industry associations to organize relevant enterprises, universities and scientific research institutes of Chinese herbal pieces, comprehensively comb and coordinate the processing methods of Chinese herbal pieces, and carry out the work of formulating a unified "national processing specification of Chinese Herbal Pieces" In general, the current unified "processing standards of Chinese Herbal Pieces" is advancing in an orderly manner In the past, due to the lack of standardization and unification in the whole country, the quality standards of Chinese herbal pieces were often in disorder In recent years, according to the drug quality announcements issued by the food and Drug Administration of China, Chinese herbal pieces are still in the "severe disaster area", accounting for a large proportion of unqualified drugs, and the industry has been calling for the establishment of a unified standard Now, with the new progress of this work, Chinese herbal medicine enterprises are more confident to face the future development of the market At present, many enterprises are actively layout to improve market competitiveness For example, a few days ago, Yiling pharmaceutical announced that the wholly-owned subsidiary invested in the construction of modern Chinese medicine industrialization project, mainly including the production and auxiliary facilities such as Decoction processing workshop, extraction workshop, preparation workshop, health care product workshop, oil pressing workshop, boiler room and storage The completion of the project will lay a good foundation for the company's development and market expansion in the future.