Acknowledgements; Foreword; Contents; 1. General introduction; 2. Good agricultural practices for medicinal plants; 3. Good collection practices for medicinal plants; 4. Common technical aspects of good agricultural practices for medicinal plants and good collection practices for medicinal plants; 5. Other relevant issues; Bibliography; Annex 1. Good Agricultural Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials, People's Republic of China; Annex 2. Points to Consider on Good Agricultural and Collection Practice for Starting Materials of Herbal Origin.
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Medicinal plant materials are supplied through collection from wild populations and cultivation. Under the overall context of quality assurance and control of herbal medicines, WHO developed the Guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants, providing general technical guidance on obtaining medicinal plant materials of good quality for the sustainable production of herbal products classified as medicines. These guidelines are also related to WHO's work on the protection of medicinal plants, aiming promotion of sustainable use and cultivation of medicinal.
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WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices [GACP] for medicinal plants.