Shanxi investigates the purchase and sale of 20 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines

On the 27th, the Shanxi Provincial Food and Drug Administration in Jinzhong and Changzhi, with packaging and warehousing conditions as the key links, carried out special inspections on the operating links of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces of the operating and use units. A total of 1,248 inspections of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces were conducted. , check the variety more than 3000 times.

"We have a total of seven business units that have failed to meet the requirements, doping adulteration, and implying the use of such drugs as the name of such drugs and medicines, and have punished them in strict accordance with the law. There have been no fines of RMB 116,000." Provincial Food and Drug Administration staff introduction.

It is understood that Chinese Herbal Medicine is a prescription drug that can be directly used for the production or use of traditional Chinese medicine after it has been concocted. As one of the three pillars of the Chinese medicine industry, the quality of TCM decoction pieces directly affects the clinical treatment of TCM. effect.

In order to ensure the quality of products, the Shanxi Province Food and Drug Administration has strengthened the management of Chinese Herbal Medicines. It is required that each business unit be responsible for the quality management of each aspect of the purchase, sale, and storage of Chinese medicine decoction pieces. The Chinese pharmaceutical professional technicians shall be responsible for them; The depot warehousing site must meet relevant requirements; the label of each package must indicate the name, specifications, origin, production enterprise, product lot number, and date of production, etc. It is forbidden to change labels and other illegal acts.

The staff told the reporter that the Bureau held a dynamic exhibition of counterfeit and inferior Chinese herbal medicines in the pharmaceutical market from time to time in Shanxi. “We hope to mobilize social forces to pay attention to the quality of Chinese herbal medicines and ensure the supervision of Chinese herbal medicines.”