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| I.
Industrial Policy
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| Using Sand
Binding Plant to Make Nutrient Food is Forbidden
(Last update: 07/12/2001) |
| Ministry of Public
Health issued a notice recently, forbidding using sand binding plants
to make nutrient products. The relevant plants include licorice, ephedra,
desert cistanche, snow lotus. According to the regulation, it is not
allowed to make nutrient food with the wild herbs as mentioned above.
For the nutrient food made from the artificial herbs, the manufacturers
should provide the certificate for the sources of raw materials, sales
contract and the raw material purchase license. (Source: Health News)
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| II.
News Collection |
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| Import &
Export of TCM in the First Half 2001 (Last update: 09/21/2001)
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| In the first
half 2001, the total value of import & export of traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) is USD329 million, including USD 259 million of export
value and USD 70 million of export value. Among the total export of
TCM, herb accounts USD168 million; herb extract accounts USD46 million
while formulated TCM accounts USD45 million. Among the total import
of TCM, the amount of herb, herb extract and formulated TCM is USD36
million, USD 10 million and USD23 million, respectively. (Source:
Pharmaceutical Express of China) |
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| National Grade
Medlar Quality Test Center Established (Last
update: 08/20/2001) |
| Ningxia province
has invested RMB70,000 to establish National Grade Medlar Product
Quality Test Center in Ningxi Agriculture & Forest Science Research
Collage.Medlar is a tradition Chinese medicine in China. It is also
a food supplement. But there is no authorized unit in China to evaluate
the quality of medlar by scientific method. For a long time medlar
can only be used as food or nutrient food rather than medicine in
the oversea countries. The function of the center is to evaluate the
medlar quality, agrochemical residue, and comprehensive utility. The
test data can be employed in the quality arbitration, trade license
etc. (Source: China Food News) |
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| Lanzhou
Encourages Lily Plantation (Last update: 07/31/2001)
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| Lily is
a characteristic plant in Lanzhou city. The Lanzhou government encourage
the peasants to plant lily. So far there are 240,000 hectares of plantation
in this area and the total production is 16,180MT. Apart from supplying
Hong Kong and Macao, Lanzhou also sells lily to USA, Japan and Singapore.
(Source: China Medicine News) |
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| Baike
Pharmaceutical to Built Largest Hormone Production Base
in China (Last update: 07/31/2001) |
| Hubei Baike
Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. are building plantation base of yellow ginger in
northern area of Hubei province. So far they have a 650,000 hectares plantation
base of ginger. To do so they can ensure the supply of the raw material
for hormone production in the company, so that to enhance the competitiveness
in the market. (Source: People's Daily) |
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| Senior
Seminar on TCM and Herb Medicine Will Be Held in Hangzhou
(Last update: 07/27/2001) |
| State Drug
Administration Bureau will hold a meeting in Hangzhou on tradition Chinese
medicine and herb medicine on 8th-20th, October 2001. There will be 500
officers, experts and entrepreneur to attend the meeting. This meeting will
discuss the issue of the legislation, registration management, standard
management of TCM and herb medicines, as well as the executation of GLP,
GCP in this area. (Source: National Medicine News) |
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| Production
of Dgeratum Decreased This Year (Last update: 07/26/2001)
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| The collection
quantity of ageratum this year is 4,500MT, including 532Mt of ageratum leaf.
The production decreased about 50-71% over the last year. But the price
increased 50-60% over the last year. At present the price of ageratum is
RMB12/kg. (Source: TCM Business News) |