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Good Agricultural and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants (GACP),Japan 　　Preface 　　0.1 Good agricultural and collection practices for medicinal plants (GACP) is a technical guideline on the production of medicinal plant materials as starting materials for crude drugs, finished crude drugs and Kampo medicines, and deal with the following areas:　　- Cultivation and collection of medicinal plants and production of medicinal plant materials;　　- Post-harvest processing required for medicinal plant materials;　　- Quality control of medicinal plant materials. 　　The GACP is based on Guidelines on cultivation and quality control of medicinal plants,volumes 110 (17), whose development were supported by a research grant provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, with reference to Japanese national quality standards such as The Japanese Pharmacopoeia and Japanese Standards for Herbal Medicines. . 　　0.2 If produced in compliance with this guideline, the medicinal plant materials shall:　　- be a high quality product;　　- be produced and stored according to good practice and hygiene standards, such that the microbiological load is below the minimum contamination level;　　- be produced and stored according to good practice and hygiene standards, such that they should be either free from pesticide residues and other foreign matter or below the minimum level of contamination by pesticide residues and other foreign matter. 　　0.3 With regard to the minimum level of contamination by microbiological organisms,pesticide residues and other foreign matter, the general principles given in The Japanese Pharmacopoeia should be followed. The actual producer of medicinal plant materials should understand the general principles and should bear in mind the issues associated with the cultivation of medicinal plants as well as post-harvest processing of medicinal plants. 　　0.4 If medicinal plant materials are produced in compliance with this guideline, they　should be de