Chinese herbal medicine pesticide residues to "seven inches"

Source: health

Our reporter Cui Fang

        Forty percent sampling herbs contain illegal pesticide, seventy percent sampling herbs have pesticide residues. Recently published by the international environmental protection organization greenpeace "Chinese herbal medicine pesticide pollution survey report", make Chinese people struggle. Chinese herbal medicine of the "disease" pesticide residues level how much? Where is the issue? The reporter interviewed.

        Traditional Chinese medicine has long been a problem of pesticide residues

        The report touches are hardest hit

        Warning about pesticide residues of Chinese medicinal materials is not the first time off. At present, the artificial planting more than 200 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials planting area is large. Plant diseases and insect pests of Chinese medicinal materials variety, serious harm, prevention and cure is difficult, has been the key and difficult problems of Chinese herbal medicine production. More than 10 years ago, Shanghai university of TCM has all over the country more than 300 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine pesticide residues in the census, the results showed that all samples are all in the 666 residues; In addition to jilin gentian, fujian adhering sand, such as a few samples, DDT residues.

        The other it is understood that in recent years, our country has more than 20 batches goji berries for pesticide residue levels are kept out of the United States; Even have a foreign trader to reflect in the domestic, now can't find no pesticide residue of honeysuckle.

        "These two days are looking at greenpeace report, named the honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, Chinese wolfberry, notoginseng, etc., has long been a traditional Chinese medicinal materials planting in the worst-hit areas of the abuse of pesticide." Chinese academy of medical sciences institute of medicinal plant cultivation center for plant conservation laboratory, said an expert with the some kind of Chinese medicinal materials with more and more pesticide residues, pesticide actually reflects the serious pests, and this kind of traditional Chinese medicine is have certain characteristics. Such as, chrysanthemum, Chinese wolfberry, honeysuckle, etc, are all sweet and tender flowers and plants, species and place are popular with worms; Panax notoginseng is root and leaf disease too much. "This suggests that, at present, the safety of Chinese herbal medicine plant diseases and insect pests control work needs to be strengthened."

        Herbalist pesticides "ghost"

        Need improve pesticide evaluation standard

        The original farming fisheries, the original ministry of health in 1982 in the pesticide safety USES regulations issued by the provisions of the high toxic pesticides are not allowed to be used for vegetables, fruit trees, medicinal herbs, etc. 199th announcement regulation issued by the ministry of agriculture in 2002 countries banned use of pesticides (18), and shall not be in vegetables, fruit trees, tea, wood used medicinal herbs in use of high toxic pesticide varieties (19) listing, and stressed: any pesticide products used shall not exceed the scope of pesticide registration approval.

        But the reality is that Chinese herbal medicine varieties, each medicine has specific diseases and insect pests, less then five or six kinds, more than a dozen, dozens of, to avoid production and rejection events, reduce economic losses, herbalist more choice using chemical pesticide. "A lot of herbalist selection criteria for pesticides, it is effective, the second is the price cheap, seldom consider pesticide toxicity on the quality of the medicinal materials." Expert introduction, disorderly consequences of abuse of chemical pesticide is like this: a large number of natural enemies killed, prevention and cure of diseases and pests resistance to increase, rising costs, increasing difficulty, form a vicious circle; The decrease of the quality of the medicinal materials, environmental pollution aggravate, already affect the quality of medicinal materials, also pollute the medicinal material production areas of soil and water environment, sustained damage on medicinal materials production.

        "In recent years, the" pharmacopoeia "has been added to in the revision of some Chinese herbal medicine pesticide residue limits standards, but compared with the current production use of pesticides, there are a lot of work to be done, urgently needed to adapt themselves to the production practice of pesticide management regulations and evaluation standard." Several experts questioned said.

        Strong scientific research heavy regulation

        Plug the security breach as soon as possible

        Interview, experts unanimously called for, should enhance the research of Chinese herbal medicine plant protection, to strengthen the construction of talent team. At the same time, as soon as possible establish pesticides using specialized laws and regulations of Chinese herbal medicine production, and increase of Chinese medicinal materials planting in the field of supervision, strengthen the pesticide safety USES knowledge popularization and training, plugging excessive pesticide residues on the Chinese traditional medicine security vulnerabilities.

        Promotion through the GAP certification of Chinese medicinal materials, moreover, standardization planting, is also regarded as a process regulation means. "It should be said, GAP certification examination in terms of plant protection work very seriously, all plant protection related terms are key items, namely a substandard housing will not be able to pass. The operability of the related terms but still need to be revised and refined degree, achieve the purpose and effect of real." Expert advice.

        "Before, the vast majority of Chinese herbal medicine is wild, food chain integrity, ecosystem is relatively stable, so the plant diseases and insect pests is not prominent. In recent years, traditional Chinese medicinal materials needs rapid expansion, a large number of Chinese medicinal materials planting with scale to obtain, the problem was more stand out." Dr, a traditional Chinese medicine plant protection professional thought, "this is the primary stage of Chinese medicinal materials planting unavoidable issues, seize the attention problems in time, can gradually solve; miss opportunity, get into hard to jump out of the vicious cycle".

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