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WHO Guidelines On Agricultural Collection

By: Matt Connelly, Fri Dec 9th, 2005 07:47:45 PM

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION guidelines on good agricultural collecting practices (GACP) for medicative plants (World Health Organization, Geneva) 2003. 20/ US $18.00; in development countries: Sw.fr. It is now globally recognized that plants play a really significant role in the healthcare of humankind. Traditional practice of medicine secondhand to be an individual founded treatment regime wherein hand picked works materials exploited by traditional physicians to treat the patients and the herbal drugs they administered maintained the desirable caliber.

But the translation of traditional music from such an individualized organization to a commercial message organisation has resulted in the decline in quality of this medication system of rules. Quality of the drugs became the casualty in this transmutation. Over 80 per cent of the raw material required for the traditional medicament ill-used to be met from wild sources. Lately there has been tremendous increase in demand for industrial plant- medicinal drug, which has light-emitting diode to depletion of natural resource base of plants and declension in calibre of the engraft- products.

The ever increasing need LED to overexploitation, and unscientific extraction of plants causing danger of extinction of many plants and loss of consistency in clutch-to-deal timbre. Use of adulterants or spurious materials is another issue that further complicates the timber standards of plants- traditional remedies. It was in this context and background that by a solving WHA56.31 on traditional medical specialty, the Member States requested the "to supply technical support for development of methodology to monitor or ensure product safety, efficiency and tone, preparation of guidelines, and promotion of exchange of information". It is on this resoluteness that is in the process of underdeveloped a series of technical guidelines for ensuring character of herbal medicate. The present publication is an important step in this direction.

The guidelines ply a comprehensive framework starting from correct identification/authentication of specific protocol and package of practices for polish as wellspring as preand post-harvest handling practices. The guidelines also cater a real comprehensive roadmap for processing the plants such as design, construction and installation of equipment, and emphasize the importance of providing a coordinated Standard Operational Procedure (STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURE) in a fountainhead documented form. Further, general instructions to train all the personnel involved in assembling, refinement, harvesting, pre-processing, storing and final processing of the found materials to value added products provided. Importance of health, hygiene of the persons involved in STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, sanitation of the place, and processing etc., specially indicated.

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