摘要
为符合保健及药用植物原料生产或其高附加价值产品的效用（Efficacy）、品质（Quality）与安全性（Safety）的管控要求，保健及药用植物所进行的人工栽培，必须建立优质安全的生产体系。目前在美国、欧盟、日本及中国大陆等国家的药用植物生产，均已建立优良农业操作（Good Agriculture Practice）规范准则，作为建立个别作物的生产栽培体系之各项农业操作的标准作业流程之依据，这些标准操作流程自栽培地点之生态环境之监控开始、种源的选择与监别、栽培管理、采收到贮存、包装、运输、人员之训练等等，每一个环节都要处在严格的控制之下执行，并有文件记载。也可据以制成附加价值更高的产品。我国保健药用植物产业正值萌芽时期，建立一套符合台湾生态环境与优质农业生产之生产体系，乃当务之急。以创造产业发展之利基与竞争力，提供农民多样化之选择，并达成增进国人健康之目标。
Quality control directly impacts the safety and efficacy of health care and medicinal herbal products. Good agricultural practices for health-care and medicinal plants is only the first step in quality assurance, that is the safety and efficacy of their high valuable products, and will also play an important role in the protection of natural resources and the plants for sustainable use. Till now, the European Union, World Health Organization and a few countries, such as China and Japan have developed regional and national good agricultural practices for medicinal plants. The safety and quality of raw health-care and medicinal plant materials and their high valuable finished products depend on factors that may be classified as intrinsic (genetic) or extrinsic (environment, collection methods, cultivation, harvest, post-harvest processing, transport and storage practices). The points to consider on good agricultural practice for healthcare and medicinal plants also need the documentation and training. We should give high priority to the development of applicable GAP guidelines and production system to promote the healthcare and medicinal plants industry development in Taiwan.
