Working Group Operations: WG1 & WG5 · 0 6 X XXX X X XX XX XX X Layer 10: Check code Layer 9: Processing and variety code of Chinese medicine Layer 8: Specification code of Chinese

Working Group Operations: WG1 & WG5

6 December 2012

Ms Suzanne Cochrane HE-031 Committee Member

WG1 –

Quality and safety

of raw materials

used in TCM (&

basic processing)

ISO/TC 249 WG1 established at 2nd Plenary meeting, the Hague, May 2011

Chaired by China – Prof Liang Liu from Macau

1st meeting Beijing December 2011 hosted by China Institute of Chinese Materia Medica

2nd meeting as part of 3rd Plenary meeting, Daejeon, Korea, May 2012

Membership Active members include:

– China (PRC)

– Korea (ROK)

– Japan

– USA

– Canada

– Australia

– South Africa

Priorities - Seed and seedling of Panax ginseng and Panax

quinquefolius

- Standard for Panax ginseng, including dried and

processed Panax ginseng

- Standard for Panax quinquefolius, including dried

and processed Panax quinquefolius

- Seed and seedling of Gingko biloba, Angelica

sinensis, and Glycyrrhiza

- Standard for Gingko biloba, Angelica sinensis,

and Glycyrrhiza, including dried and processed

Gingko biloba, Angelica sinensis, and Glycyrrhiza

- General standard for contaminants and toxins in

raw materials used in TCM

Scope of WG1?

WG1 Scope The Scope of WG1 should be the standardization of

materials and processes related to the quality and

safety of raw materials used in TCM. The

materials include plant, animal and mineral

ingredients at any stages up to and including

harvest of a plant ingredient and collection of an

animal or mineral ingredient. The processes

include seeding, cultivation, collection,

processing, transportation, grading, packaging,

labeling, marker compound testing, and

contamination and toxin testing. The goal of WG1

is to produce formal international standard for

materials and processes related to the quality and

safety of raw materials used in TCM. WG1 should

also be responsible for the ongoing maintenance

and development of the standards.

1st project

‘Ginseng seeds

& seedling

standard’

Currently being

voted

Heavy metal

contamination of

herbal materials

“Heavy metal and pesticide content in

commonly prescribed individual raw Chinese

Herbal Medicines”.

“focusing mainly on Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn and partly

on M, As, Cr, Fe, Hg, Mn and Ni”

“heavy metals don’t distil in water-based

decoctions”

WG5

Informatics and

terminology of

TCM

ISO/TC 249 WG5 established at 2nd Plenary

meeting, the Hague, May 2011

Jointly chaired by China & Korea – Dr Wang Kui &

1st meeting Beijing February 2011 hosted by

World Federation of CM Societies

2nd meeting as part of 3rd Plenary meeting,

Daejeon, Korea, May 2012

Scope of WG5 The scope of WG5 shall be the standardisation of

TCM nomenclature, terminology, classification

and ontology.

The methodology of informatics when related to

health informatics technology shall be

standardised with a joint working group between

TC249 and TC215.

Joint WG with

TC215

TC 215 is: Standardization in the field of information for health, and Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to promote interoperability between independent systems, to enable compatibility and consistency for health information and data, as well as to reduce duplication of effort and redundancies.

Basic

Nomenclature of

Traditional

Chinese

Medicine

Agreed to focus on Materia Medica terms to

begin.

Almost every TCM term has been translated in

different ways.

There are nomenclature-induced language

barriers.

Coding

structure of

Chinese

medicine

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Layer 10: Check code

Layer 9: Processing and variety code of

Chinese medicine

Layer 8: Specification code of Chinese

medicine

Layer 7: Species code of Chinese medicine

Layer 6: Subdivided code of medical part

Layer 5: Main code of medical part

Layer 4: Subdivided code of medical source

Layer 3: Main code of medical source

Layer 2: Product code of Chinese medicine

Layer 1: Main category of agriculture, forestry, pasture husbandry, fishery,

and Chinese medicine

Figure 1―Coding structure of Chinese medicine

THANK YOU