Analysis of several key problems of good agricultural practice (GAP) of Chinese materia medica.

Author: Guang YANG ¹ ; Lan-Ping GUO ¹ ; Xiu-Teng ZHOU ¹ ; Lu-Qi HUANG ¹
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1. State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Good Agriculture Practice; resource administration; resource economics; third-party certification; traditional Chinese medicinal resources
From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2016;41(7):1173-1177
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: This paper reviewed the historical background of the GAP, analyzed the development experience of five Ps (GMP, GLP, GSP, GCP, GAP), analyzed the GAP based on economic theories, and pointed out that the core problem of GAP is ignoring economic laws. Once the GAP, is a process of certification, but neither the GAP announcement could be transformed into signal transmission quality in the product market, nor consumers could recognize the difference between GAP and non-GAP herbs in the terminal market, so manufacturers lack motivation for GAP certification. In this paper, we pointed out, that the GAP certification system should be redesigned under the guidance of economics, third party certification body, supervised by drug administration organization, to certificate GAP as high quality standards, to improve signal transduction mechanism of GAP certification, and to integrate GAP with the market.