From this newspaper (Reporter Lei Fengyu) Zhang Boli, a member of the National People’s Congress and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who attended the Fifth Session of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress, suggested that research and standardized management of medicinal and edible items should be strengthened.
Medicinal and edible items are a class of items that human beings have found in long-term production and living practices that can be used as food and as medicines to prevent and treat diseases. There are many such items in traditional Chinese medicine. It has played an important role in maintaining health and maintaining health, and is also widely used internationally. Zhang Boli said that at present, the development of modern science and technology has brought about major changes in people’s living environment, living patterns and living standards. The disease spectrum has also undergone great changes, and diseases mainly caused by lifestyle have become the main diseases affecting human health.
“Currently there is a huge demand for medicinal and edible items, but the relevant parties do not pay enough attention to them and lack cultural confidence; the list of medicinal and edible items is too narrow, which affects the development of related industries; The lack of in-depth scientific research on consumer goods, low investment, and lack of international competitiveness; imperfect laws and regulations restrict the high-quality development of the dual-use medicine and food industry, adding obstacles to multilateral trade,” Zhang Boli said.
Zhang Boli suggested that we should enhance cultural self-confidence, inherit the motherland’s excellent medicinal and edible culture and ideological connotations, and promote the construction of a healthy China; strengthen investment in scientific research on medicinal and edible products, improve the level of scientific research, and establish More influential brands; clearly list the negative lists that cannot be used as medicinal and edible items, and strengthen the investigation, analysis and evaluation of the literature, clinical and social application of medicinal and edible items. The safety information provided by the specific declared medicinal and edible products shall be comprehensively and systematically evaluated by the expert committee; the legal and regulatory system related to the medicinal and edible products shall be improved, a management system with Chinese characteristics shall be established, and the domestic and international economic double cycle shall be promoted.
Source: Tonight News