Upgrading of Quality Control for Herbal Medicine Use in South Korea by Introducing an Accreditation System: a brief report.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to present a government-led accreditation system for upgrading the quality control of herbal medicine by introducing the process and evaluation standard of external herbal dispensaries (EHDs) of traditional Korean medicine (TKM) clinics in South Korea 2018 to refer to other countries where herbal medicine were used similarly in Korea.

Development process

We organized an EHD accreditation committee for the establishment of an accreditation system. The committee consisted of 9 experts an official of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), a professor expert of TKM, a good manufacturing practice expert, a hazard analysis and critical control point expert, and an accreditation system expert. After 3 meetings, a draft of the evaluation standard and

SUBMITTER: Sung SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11439515 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature