Rubrik: europharm
(Treffer aus pharmind, Nr. 07, Seite 1078 (2012))
Graf vom Hagen-Plettenberg*Moritz Graf vom Hagen-Plettenberg is Chair of the German Expert Committee on Cultivation of Medicinal S | Klier B | Tegtmeier M | Waimer F | Steinhoff B
Good Agricultural and Collection Practice (GACP) – A Pragmatic and Efficient State-of-the-art Standard / Cultivation, collection and primary processing of medicinal plants · Graf vom Hagen-Plettenberg
*Moritz Graf vom Hagen-Plettenberg is Chair of the German Expert Committee on Cultivation of Medicinal S, Klier B, Tegtmeier M, Waimer F, Steinhoff B · Sandfort GmbH & Co. KG1, Olfen (Germany) und Martin Bauer GmbH & Co. KG2, Vestenbergsgreuth (Germany) und Schaper & Brümmer GmbH & Co. KG3, Salzgitter (Germany) und Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG4, Karlsruhe (Germany) und Bundesverband der Arzneimittel-Hersteller e.V.5, Bonn (Germany)
Due to their natural origin raw materials used in the production of herbal medicinal products have special characteristics. Unlike chemically defined substances that are used for the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) in a fully industrialized process, the first steps of production of herbal medicinal products are completely different: Medicinal plants grow in nature where they are cultivated in agriculture or collected from the wild. Thus, on the one hand they are the starting point for the production of medicinal products for which in principle Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) rules [ 1 ] are applicable according to the existing ...