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[ About the Section
| Responsibilities | Key Personnel |
Quality Assurance | Key Instruments
| Targets
and Key Indicators ]
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Chinese Medicines Section
About the
Section
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This Section was established on 7th October
1998. Its major responsibilities are to carry out safety monitoring
of proprietary Chinese Medicines and Chinese herbal medicines
on sale to the public and to conduct development work on analytical
methodology. |
Responsibilities
This Section examines Proprietary Chinese Medicines
and Chinese herbal medicines submitted by the Department of Health.
Around 50,000 tests on Chinese Medicines samples are conducted each year in the Section. Proprietary Chinese Medicines samples are examined for heavy metals/toxic element content and any adulteration by western drugs. Chinese herbal medicines are analyzed for pesticide residues and heavy metals/toxic element.
For the HOKLAS accredited tests undertaken by this section, please click here for details.
Key Personnel
Senior Chemist : Dr. S K Wong
(Tel.
No.: 2319-8398 E-mail : skwong@govtlab.gov.hk)
Quality
Assurance
About 10% of the tests conducted in the Section
are for QC purposes.
Key
Instruments
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The following instruments are used routinely
by the Section:
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Gas chromatograph with Electron Capture Detector, Flame Photometric Detector and Mass Selective Detector
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High Performance Liquid Chromatographs with Evaporative Light Scattering Detector, Photodiode Array Detector and Scanning Fluorescence Detector
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UV Spectrophotometer
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
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High Performance Liquid Chromatograph - Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
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High Performance Liquid Chromatograph - Tandem Mass spectrometer
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Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer
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Targets
and Key Indicators
Key Performance Measures Relating to the Statutory
Testing of Chinese Medicines
Targets
| Testing of Chinese Medicines |
Targets |
2006
(Actual) |
2007
(Actual) |
2008
(Plan) |
Chinese Medicines
within target reporting time
averaging 30 working days (%) * |
95 |
96 |
95 |
95 |
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| * |
Different samples require different
analytical procedures, thus different target reporting time
applies. The quoted number of working days required represents
an average of target reporting time for the different samples
within the category. |
Key Indicators
Key Indicators for Statutory Testing of Chinese
Medicines
| Tests Performed on Chinese
Medicines |
2006
(Actual) |
2007
(Actual) |
2008
(Estimate) |
| Chinese Medicines |
56,076 |
53,442 |
60,000 |
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