Advancing the Regulation of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Products: A Comparison of Five Regulatory Systems on Traditional Medicines with a Long History of Use

Table 5

The quality standard items of CCMF product in China.

	Quality standard items
Crude drugs	Base source, medicament portions, origin, harvest time, origin processing, description, identification test, extract content, assaying of active/index components, loss on drying, fingerprint or characteristic spectrum, impurities, pesticide residues, heavy metals and harmful elements, fungal toxins, and other exogenous contamination limits
Prepared slices of crude drug	Source of herbs, base source, description, identification test, extract content, assaying of active/index components, loss on drying, fingerprint or characteristic spectrum, pesticide residues, heavy metals and harmful elements, fungal toxins, and other exogenous contamination limits
Substance benchmark	Description, identification test, extract content, assaying of active/index components, fingerprint or characteristic spectrum, toxic ingredients assaying, loss on drying, and other test items
Final product	Description, identification test, loss on drying, assaying of active/index components, extract content, exogenous contamination limits, fingerprint or characteristic spectrum, and other test items