Medicinal materials will be the first time into five key areas of development

Excipients in the past has been used as medicines in a supportingrole,but its importance is in fact the same as the raw material,the Ministryissued a pharmaceutical industry "The Twelfth Five Year Plan" for thefirst time into the top five pharmaceutical excipients key development areas.Some experts predict that,"The Twelve Five Year Plan" period domesticpharmaceutical excipients market size will be about 20% per year growth rate,by 2015 its market scale will reach 40 billion yuan,or for a time becamethe pharmaceutical industry,pharmaceutical excipients each side the focus ofattention.

Since the transformation and upgrading of China's pharmaceuticalindustry in the period to improve the quality of medicines and the developmentof new drug formulations,the demand for new pharmaceutical excipients will increase significantly.Therefore,the quality of pharmaceutical excipientsbecome the industry concerned about the hot lies.

Currently,the state authorities have been increasing emphasis on pharmaceutical excipients industry.In MIIT pharmaceutical industry,"The Twelfth Five Year Plan" to strengthen the development of new pharmaceutical excipients as the current main tasks and key development areas.

Recently,the State Food and Drug Supervision Administration issueda circular calling for all levels of food and drug supervision departments should strengthen food and drug safety science and technology work.Notice that the food and drug regulatory departments at all levels of scientific andtechnological work to strengthen food and drug supervision as an important function,good food and drug safety technology work overall planning.The provincial food and drug supervision departments should strengthen supervisionand practical techniques,methods of research and extension,and actively participate in the implementation of major science and technology research projects.City and county food and drug regulatory departments should use scientific and technological innovations,track and re-evaluation as apriority.

The circular emphasizes that the food and drug supervision departments at all levels should focus on restricting food and drug safety supervision focus and difficult issues,to strengthen food and drug test key technologies;planning to co-ordinate food and drug inspection system.National and provincial food and drug inspection agency through collaborative research and concentrate on solving medicine,health food illegally addedidentification techniques such as testing.

By Joseph