Progress in the International Organization Standard for Chinese Herbal Granules
中药配方颗粒国际组织标准的研究与制定

Chinese herbal granules are convenient for use, safe and effective, with controllable quality, while maintaining the characteristic and advantage of Chinese herbal pieces. To gain broader domestic and international markets, the international promotion is critical, and thus a unified quality specification is urgently needed. According to the production and development of Chinese herbal granules, this work set up a standard for the production craft and quality specification of 300 kinds of commonly used Chinese herbal granules. The items covered include the name, origin, character, distinction, inspection, content determination, function and indication, usage and dosage, attention, specification, storage, aspect and term of validity. The establishment of the international organization standard for Chinese herbal granules, under the guidance by WFCMS, may be helpful to the healthy and orderly development of the international market for Chinese herbal granules.