China's first e-commerce standard for traditional Chinese medicine will be put into use

At the recent meeting of the Alliance of traditional Chinese Medicine planting bases, it was learned that China's first e-commerce standard for traditional Chinese medicine will be fully put into use by the end of this year, and consumers will no longer have to worry about the quality of traditional Chinese medicine through the e-commerce platform.

With the increase of demand, the phenomenon of inferior quality of traditional medicinal materials such as saffron, Cordyceps sinensis and Fritillaria thunbergii is very common in recent years, while the specifications of traditional Chinese medicinal materials have diversified characteristics, which should be subdivided by shape, color, smell and other features. therefore, it is difficult for ordinary consumers to identify the advantages and disadvantages. In order to solve these problems, the first batch of standards put into application include 1187 product specifications of Cordyceps sinensis, Fritillaria chuanensis, Codonopsis pilosula and other commonly used varieties of traditional Chinese medicine.

Long Xingchao, director of the traditional Chinese Medicine Information Center of the China traditional Chinese Medicine Association, said: "this standard has been formulated systematically. first of all, you can see a full picture, and secondly, it tells you the coefficient of each grade." What's the third one? What the fake medicine looks like, it also has a picture, we can completely compare it. "

According to statistics, at present, the annual sales of e-commerce platform for traditional Chinese medicine in China has reached 20 billion yuan, but the lack of circulation standards has become the main bottleneck restricting the development of e-commerce of traditional Chinese medicine. After the introduction of this standard, Chinese herbal medicine products traded online will be graded according to quality to achieve high quality and high price.

According to the prediction of relevant departments, by the end of 2016, China's e-commerce standards for traditional Chinese medicine will cover more than 5000 product specifications of 1200 commonly used varieties of traditional Chinese medicine.