title: Current situation of International Organization for Standardization/Technical Committee 249 international standards of traditional Chinese medicine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the current situation and progress of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) international standards, standard projects and proposals in International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/ technical committee (TC) 249.
  
  
  METHODS
  ISO/TC 249 standards and standard projects on the ISO website were searched and new standard proposals information were collected from ISO/TC 249 National Mirror Committee in China. Then all the available data were summarized in 5 closely related items, including proposed time, proposed country, assigned working group (WG), current stage and classifification.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In ISO/TC 249, there were 2 international standards, 18 standard projects and 24 new standard proposals proposed in 2014. These 44 standard subjects increased year by year since 2011. Twenty-nine of them were proposed by China, 15 were assigned to WG 4, 36 were in preliminary and preparatory stage and 8 were categorized into 4 fifields, 7 groups and sub-groups based on International Classifification Standards.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A rapid and steady development of international standardization in TCM can be observed in ISO/TC 249.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.
authors.forename: Yu-Qi
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.
authors.forename: Yue-Xi
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.
authors.forename: Nan-Nan
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China. xuejieh@126.com.
authors.forename: Xue-Jie
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China. aipinglu@hkbu.edu.hk.|School of Chinese medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China. aipinglu@hkbu.edu.hk.
authors.forename: Ai-Ping
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: International Organization for Standardization/Technical Committee 249; international standards; traditional Chinese medicine