The Role of the European Pharmacopoeia(Ph Eur)in Quality Control of Traditional Chinese He

The Role of the European Pharmacopoeia(Ph Eur)in

Quality Control of Traditional Chinese Herbal

Medicine in European Member States

Mei Wang;Gerhard Franz;

【期刊名称】《世界中医药杂志：英文版》 【年(卷),期】2015(000)001

【摘要】In order to assure the safety and efficacy of the Chinese Medicines in Europe, the quality of TCM herbals should be guaranteed so that they can be freely imported in the European Union and other Western European Countries which are signatories of the European Pharmacopoeia Convention. Consequently, new Ph Eur TCM herbal drug Monographs should be elaborated, based on preexisting Monographs in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia(Ch P) 2010.Such a program has been inaugurated in 2005 by the Ph Eur Groups of Experts 13 A and B(Phytochemistry). Since then good progress has been made, elaborating of about one third of the originally proposed 100 TCM herbals being identified as important monographs for the European Market. Taking into account the many challenges still laying ahead, the establishment of a specialized Working Party(WP) on TCM with specialists and experts from many EU Member States has been decided by the Ph Eur Commission in 2008 which is highly active ever since in the examination and elaboration of new TCM herbal drug monographs,