Safety of traditional Chinese medicine: walking on the edge of the red line

The reality that the whole industry has to face is that up to now, our traditional Chinese medicine is still on the edge of the safe red line Pesticide residues and heavy metals exceed the standard, which has become a deep "red letter" with Chinese herbal medicine unearthed from the soil Even though the gap, which is specially designed to solve this problem, has been published for 11 years In fact, this problem is not fundamentally different from the food safety we encounter at the dinner table today When the soil is polluted, the atmosphere is damaged, and the water flow is polluted, we have no reason to hope that the quality of the traditional Chinese medicine grown from the land will remain unchanged hundreds of years ago If the medicine itself is polluted and sick, who should be responsible for this situation? Chinese people did not pay special attention to the topic of traditional Chinese medicine pollution If we do not advocate the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, but because the pharmacological standards cannot be explained by western thinking, and if we do not export traditional Chinese medicine subject to strict scrutiny by importing countries, the problems of pesticide and heavy metal residues in traditional Chinese medicine will not be exposed so thoroughly The products of traditional Chinese medicine under the category of import and export management based on agricultural products are the first to suffer from "green barriers" in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, which have a high acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine culture The most difficult problem of "pollution" is encountered in the export Then, in Europe and the United States, where the import standards are higher, the problems of agricultural residues and heavy metals of traditional Chinese medicine expand to a wider range In fact, there have been different voices about the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine in the industry Compared with the viewpoint that traditional Chinese medicine should go to the world, the voice on the other side thinks that due to the high dependence and limited resources of traditional Chinese medicine in raw materials, the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine will inevitably bring huge pressure to the production of raw materials, and will also affect its sustainable further development Even for different voices of the two groups, the problem that we have reached consensus is that after being planted on a large scale and using modern technology to speed up the growth cycle, the actual medicinal power of traditional Chinese medicine and the rhythm of soil recuperation and restoration have been artificially destroyed Such expansion of production, and the concept of traditional Chinese medicine has been in the wrong direction However, the more direct impact comes from the difficulty in controlling pesticides in the planting process, and a deplorable event still hasn't eliminated the impact Thirty years ago, in order to eliminate the pine caterpillars on Changbai Mountain, the government had organized airplanes to scatter the highly toxic pesticide, such as bh66, in the forest area Up to now, this kind of pesticide, which is very difficult to degrade, is still often detected in the ginseng of Changbai Mountain production area, greatly affecting the quality of ginseng products in this main ginseng production area of China In 2002, 11 years ago, China introduced GAP certification based on the experience of European and American planting industry Its purpose is to protect the wild resources and ecological environment, adhere to the "maximum sustainable output" and realize the sustainable utilization of Chinese herbal medicine resources by using standardized management and quality monitoring methods, taking the international standard of "safety, effectiveness, stability and controllability" as the terminal standard But ten years later, in order to obtain the next step of development, this enterprise led planting base mode obviously needs more policy support and force For the quality recognition and market recognition of high-quality varieties, setting quality score as the bidding procurement standard, and strengthening the dynamic monitoring and management of planting base are all in the need of supplement in the protection of medicinal materials and the development of Chinese medicine industry The short board of For the fragile ecology of traditional Chinese medicine, it is also very urgent for the state to think about and re plan the overall industry - how to develop traditional Chinese medicine, in the final analysis, is inseparable from the development and standardization of traditional Chinese medicine For the Chinese medicine culture that has been accumulated for thousands of years, a firm foundation is the only way to seek greater development.