WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices [GACP] for medicinal plants / / World Health Organization

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : WHO, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 72 p
• Disciplina: 633.8/8
• Soggetto topico: Medicinal plants; Plants, Useful
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. General introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Objectives -- 1.3 Structure -- 1.4 Glossary -- 1.4.1. Terms relating to herbal medicines: -- 1.4.2. Terms relating to medicinal plant cultivation and collection activities: -- 2. Good agricultural practices for medicinal plants -- 2.1 Identification/authentication of cultivated medicinal plants -- 2.1.1 Selection of medicinal plants -- 2.1.2 Botanical identity -- 2.1.3 Specimens -- 2.2 Seeds and other propagation materials -- 2.3 Cultivation -- 2.3.1 Site selection -- 2.3.2 Ecological environment and social impact -- 2.3.3 Climate -- 2.3.4 Soil -- 2.3.5 Irrigation and drainage -- 2.3.6 Plant maintenance and protection -- 2.4 Harvest -- 2.5 Personnel -- 3. Good collection practices for medicinal plants -- 3.1 Permission to collect -- 3.2 Technical planning -- 3.3 Selection of medicinal plants for collection -- 3.4 Collection -- 3.5 Personnel -- 4. Common technical aspects of good agricultural practices for medicinal plants and good collection practices for medicinal plants -- 4.1 Post-harvest processing -- 4.1.1 Inspection and sorting -- 4.1.2 Primary processing -- 4.1.3 Drying -- 4.1.4 Specific processing -- 4.1.5 Processing facilities -- 4.2 Bulk packaging and labelling -- 4.3 Storage and transportation -- 4.4 Equipment -- 4.4.1 Materials -- 4.4.2 Design, construction and installation -- 4.4.3 Identification -- 4.5 Quality assurance -- 4.6 Documentation -- 4.7 Personnel (growers, collectors, producers, handlers, processors) -- 4.7.1 General -- 4.7.2 Health, hygiene and sanitation -- 5. Other relevant issues -- 5.1 Ethical and legal considerations -- 5.1.1 Intellectual property rights and benefits-sharing -- 5.1.2 Threatened and endangered species -- 5.2 Research needs -- Bibliography. ; Annex 1. Good Agricultural Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials, People's Republic of China -- Annex 2. Points to Consider on Good Agricultural and Collection Practice for Starting Materials of Herbal Origin -- Annex 3. Good Agricultural and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants (GACP), Japan -- Annex 4. A model structure for monographs on good agricultural practices for specific medicinal plants -- Annex 5. Sample record for cultivated medicinal plants -- Annex 6. Participants in the WHO Consultation on Good Agricultural and Field Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants.
• Sommario/riassunto: Medicinal plant materials are supplied through collection from wild populations and cultivation. Under the overall context of quality assurance and control of herbal medicines, WHO developed the Guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants, providing general technical guidance on obtaining medicinal plant materials of good quality for the sustainable production of herbal products classified as medicines. These guidelines are also related to WHO's work on the protection of medicinal plants, aiming promotion of sustainable use and cultivation of medicinal plants. The main objectives of these guidelines are to:. (1) contribute to the quality assurance of medicinal plant materials used as the source for herbal medicines to improve the quality, safety and efficacy of finished herbal products;. (2) guide the formulation of national and/or regional GACP guidelines and GACP monographs for medicinal plants and related standard operating procedures; and. (3) encourage and support the sustainable cultivation and collection of medicinal plants of good quality in ways that respect and support the conservation of medicinal plants and the environment in general. These guidelines concern the cultivation and collection of medicinal plants and include certain post-harvest operations. Good agricultural and collection practices for medicinal plants are the first step in quality assurance, on which the safety and efficacy of herbal medicinal products directly depend. These practices also play an important role in protection natural resources of medicinal plants for sustainable use.
• Titolo autorizzato: WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices for medicinal plants
• ISBN: 1-280-08853-2; 9786610088539; 92-4-068159-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816419903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II