title: [Development of quality traceability system of traditional Chinese medicine].
abstract: The development of Chinese medicine is directly related to the quality and safety issues, It has drawn great attention of people. Chinese traditional medicine quality issue involves two aspects of traditional Chinese medicine itself and human. In order to prevent man-made or illegal factors led to the decrease of the quality of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) or security risk, it needs to establish a feasible system to guarantee, in which the construction and development of traditional Chinese medicine quality traceability system is an important direction of the development of the traditional Chinese medicine in the future. This paper first reviews the development of quality traceability system status and critical retrospective techniques, then introduced current development status of quality traceability system of traditional Chinese medicine( QTS-TCM), pointing out the characteristics of QTS-TCM, and finally given the current research findings of QTS-TCM.
authors.affiliation: Information Technology College of Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus, Zhuhai 519087, China. rubeman@126.com
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China.
authors.forename: Jing-Yun
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Tao
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000592:standards*; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal