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Safety Assessment of Oriental Medicines and Their Preparations  

Jeong, Il-Hyung (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Kim, Jong-Hwa (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Jeon, Jong-Sup (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Cho, Sang-Hun (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Park, Shin-Hee (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Jo, Hyun-Ye (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
Kim, Young-Sug (Pharmaceutical Chemistry Team, Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment)
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety / v.25, no.3, 2010 , pp. 232-237 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to evaluate the safety of circulated oriental medicines and their related preparations in Gyeonggi-do. Total 366 samples (165 species) were analyzed about heavy metals, residual contents of sulfur dioxide ($SO_2$), and 68 samples were analyzed about preservatives. 17 samples (13 species, 4.6%) were exceeded the legal limit of heavy metal. The concentrations over the legal limit for Pb, Cd, As and Hg were 6.1~19.2 mg/kg, 0.4~0.7 mg/kg, 6.9 mg/kg and 0.7 mg/kg, respectively. In particular, the exceeding ratio (5.9%) of the legal limit of heavy metals in foreign products was 3.3 times more than domestic products (1.8%). 13 samples (10 species, 3.6%) exceeded the limit of residual sulfur dioxide and the concentration ranges were 105 to 428 mg/kg in domestic products, on the other hand foreign products were from 114 to 2,468 mg/kg. The mean concentration over the limit of residual sulfur dioxide of foreign products (804 mg/kg) was 2.4 times more than domestic products (338 mg/kg). In studying of the preservatives in oriental preparation, the contents of dehydroacetic acid (48.9~64.1%) in 3 samples of labeled solutions were under the labeled preservative contents and the contents of benzoic acid (139.9%) in 1 sample of labeled pill product was exceeded the labeled preservative contents. The numbers of the detected preservatives in unlabeled solutions, pills and granules were 4, 11 and 7, respectively.
Keywords
Oriental medicines; Oriental medicine preparations; Heavy metals; Sulfur dioxide residue; Preservatives;
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