Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy Department of Health started a 5 year project to set up a Chinese crude drug environment in 2004. In order to share the achievement with the general public and enhance the suitability of the regulation, and elevate the understanding of the general practitioners, help the pharmaceutical companies to know the worldwide trend to promote their products overseas, CCMP will sponsor “2009 Promotion of Law and Regulation of Chinese Herbal Industry and Exposition of Drug Safety Project Achievement”. The principal investigators of the related projects will be invited to present their achievement orally or in poster format. Their Chinese and English abstract will be compiled. In the Symposium, experts will be invited to address on New Chinese herbal drug, registration of herbal preparations, inspection of GMP facilities and processing of Chinese crude drugs. A panel discussion on law and regulation of Chinese herbal industry and promotion of investigation results will be held. 20 to 30 experts in related field will be invited. Unsuitable laws will be recommended for revision. The major aims and priorities on law and regulation of Chinese herbal industry and promotion of investigation results in 2010 will be discussed. All suggestions will be provided to CCMP for future reference. To facilitate the smooth running of the project, a 7 member consultant committee will be set up. Besides TCM related experts, law experts will also be invited to provide their expertise.
