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Online portal to ensure safety, traceability of TCM herbs
By Wong Mun Wai, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 16 April 2008 1641 hrs

 
 
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SINGAPORE: An online portal will be developed to track traditional Chinese medicinal herbs - from cultivation to the retail shops - to ensure safety of the products.

Good herb manufacturing quality and distribution tracking makes good business sense. That is why Eu Yan Sang is taking part in the project to develop the iGATES portal.

Richard Eu, Group Chief Executive Director, Eu Yan Sang International, said: "iGATES wraps up all the processes together and enables the various stakeholders and the various parts of the value chain to connect on this platform."

Chemical fingerprinting profiles the chemical make-up of a herb and genomic fingerprinting provides an objective evaluation of the genetic family of plants, based on species, cultivated varieties and origin.

The online system, which can be licensed to companies and regulatory authorities, will enable the exact source of the problem to be traced quickly.

The project is estimated to cost S$445,000 and the portal is scheduled to be ready by the middle of next year.

In 2006, about S$300 million worth of TCM herbs were imported into Singapore.


- CNA/so

 

 



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