RADIATION STERILIZATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE DRUGS IN VIETNAM

摘要

With the application of Gamma Co-60 radiation sterilization in pharmaceutical industry, attention should be paid to the possibilities of sterilizing traditional medicine drugs produced in Vietnam. In this paper the opinion which traditional medicine drugs can be satisfactorily sterilized by irradiation is based on the changes of physical and chemical properties of the products and microbiological examinations. The sterilizing radiation dose were calculated and the results are the following (in Mrad) Rheumatine-2.2, Hasinh-3.3, snake extract-1.8, Samcotgiao-2.2 . The changes of physical and chemical properties of the products and their toxicity after irradiation have been shown to be not over the levels of allowance.