2015-05-22 15:25

 

Illegal drugs into the 26 Ginkgo biloba affected Yunnan Baiyao pharmaceutical companies

 

CNDSN may 22 news (21st Century Business Herald) on May 20, the food and Drug Administration informed the 26 drugs list of enterprises, and in the nationwide organize Ginkgo biloba drugs special governance.

It is reported that the food and Drug Administration in flight inspection of low-priced sales of Ginkgo biloba drugs firms found, Guilin Xingda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Wan Bangde (Hunan) Natural Medicine Co., Ltd. illegal change of production process, illegal production of extract of Ginkgo biloba extract and these products are sold to including Yunnan Baiyao (000538, stock it), Qian source pharmaceutical (300254, stock it), Fangsheng pharmacy (603998, Guba) three listed companies, including 24 pharmaceutical enterprises.

In this regard, Yuan Yuan Xue thousand source medical securities affairs representative to the 21st Century Business Herald reporter said before the cooperation between the two sides have the inspection of the qualification of the company, and through the review of the record, but later why this product quality problems, but also the need for further investigation.

"Enterprises change the processing technology, mainly to save costs, while the formation of price advantage." Www medicine industry analyst Zhang Bin said: "traditional Chinese medicine extract is also not clear industry standards. Before the extract of the Chinese medicine industry has not forced GMP transformation, and the Commission of the phenomenon of the generation of more, industry regulation difficult to start."

26 companies caught

According to the bulletin, Guilin Xingda pharmaceutical will Ginkgo biloba extract production process from dilute ethanol extract changed to 3% hydrochloric acid extraction and never have qualified enterprises to purchase by hydrochloric acid process for the production of Ginkgo biloba extract for production of gingko leaf and will extract sales outsourcing to other pharmaceutical producing enterprises, forged raw material purchase ledger and production inspection records.

And limited company of natural drug Wan Bangde (Hunan) is purchased ginkgo leaf extract production of gingko leaf and Ginkgo Ye Jiaonang etc. preparation forged raw material purchase ledger and production inspection records.

"The main active ingredient of the ginkgo tablet is the flavone, the flavonoid belongs to the lipid, is not the soluble substance, therefore must use the alcohol substance in the extraction process.. Because the use of methanol extraction of the toxicity of the more large, so the main use of dilute ethanol." Zhang Bin, told 21st Century Business Herald reporter, the enterprise use hydrochloric acid to extract will not lead to acidic exceeded, is a more important direction detection, need to look at the amount of enterprises and use.

It is understood that the chemical constituents of Ginkgo biloba extract contains a harmful ingredient of ginkgo acid, can cause serious allergic reaction, but also cause mutations, nerve damage, etc.. In view of this, the 2010 edition of the Chinese pharmacopoeia for Ginkgo biloba leaves preparation, ginkgo acid content should be below 10ug/g. The quality of the extracts of Ginkgo biloba leaves is different, and the price of the Ginkgo biloba leaves is different from the control of the content of the Ginkgo biloba..

"Relatively dilute ethanol, hydrochloric acid cost much cheaper, the price is probably 1/6 of dilute ethanol. But hydrochloric acid is strong, according to the proportion of added in the process of making, impact on the final product will different acid content exceeded is very likely. " Pharmaceutical industry analyst Zhao Zhen said.

However, Yunnan Baiyao denied the report. 21 afternoon, Yunnan Baiyao issued to clarify the notice said: "Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd. and its affiliated production unit before does not produce containing ginkgo biloba extract any drug product, also never used the notice referred to in the" ginkgo leaf extract "."

On the same day, Fangsheng pharmacy also announced that has established the investigation team composed of quality department, production technology department, purchasing department and other relevant departments, launched a comprehensive internal investigation of Guilin Xingda supplies of Ginkgo biloba extract. "The company has terminated all business dealings with Guilin, Xingda and will be legally its claim."

Regulatory challenges

"All the standards and industry norms of the Chinese medicine industry are aimed at raw materials, pieces and proprietary Chinese medicine, and there are no clear laws and regulations and industry standards in the field of Chinese herbal extracts and preparation. The extract has the relevant limits and testing in the Pharmacopoeia of China, as well as the requirements of the production testing process, but it is only a directive outline.." Zhang Bin said.

According to the State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) data showed: as of January 2015, Ginkgo biloba extract production and sales companies in domestic production and imports has 113, including 13 injection, oral preparation of 100. According to incomplete statistics, the country now gingko processing industry chain of production companies have more than 300, mainly the production of ginkgo leaf extract and its downstream products, including medicines, health products, cosmetics, food and beverage products.

Although the production and processing of the enterprise is not much, but the supervision is still difficult." Zhang Bin, told reporters, on the one hand, for a long time the process of traditional Chinese medicine by virtue of their own experience, many processing enterprises drill regulatory loopholes, in accordance with their ancient prescription or more adept and habits of the process to operate. On the other hand, the overall size of the Chinese herbal medicine processing enterprises are relatively small, in the market competition, especially in the face of these exotic foreign competitors, the main thing is to choose to reduce costs to get the price advantage.

Beijing Dingchen medical consultation, which is responsible for Shi lichen said: "Ginkgo biloba extract industry not price war, manufacturers to shift process more is in order to obtain higher profits, because Ginkgo biloba has been applied in many areas, so the downstream demand is also very strong."

It is understood that China is the world's first major Ginkgo biloba extract producer. Because the content of effective components in more and more extensive, ginkgo leaf extract preparation has been recorded in 2009 the national medical insurance medicine catalogue of drugs, and firmly occupy the cerebral vascular disease and extraction of traditional Chinese medicine of anti dementia drugs market platform. According to incomplete statistics, as of 2013, the domestic hospital cerebrovascular and anti dementia drug market reached 225 million yuan, the ginkgo leaf preparation market accounted for 20%, domestic ginkgo leaf preparation market is about 45 billion yuan.

According to Booz data, the current global production of Ginkgo biloba extract mainly concentrated in Chinese, Germany and france. In 2013, the annual output of the three countries accounted for 78.3% of total global output. Among them, the output of Ginkgo biloba extract of China was 348.6 tons, accounting for 48.52% of the global output; German output was 107.3 tons, accounting for 14.93%; French output was 106.8 tons, accounting for 14.86%.

"Before in the extract of traditional Chinese medicine and there is no mandatory GMP transformation, if the production workshop is strictly in accordance with the GMP standard production, then the latter can also be found mainly in which links. But if there is no change according to the GMP, it is difficult to pursue." Zhao added, said.

It is worth mentioning that Ginkgo biloba extract industry usher in the tide of rectification. The State Food and Drug Administration said that will organize the market sales of Ginkgo biloba extract to conduct a comprehensive testing, and flight inspection on the part of the enterprise, timely publication of the inspection and examination results to the society.