iGATES (integrated Good Agronomic Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicine Electronic System)

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iGATES(integrated Good Agronomic Practice for
Traditional Chinese Medicine Electronic System)
iGATES BioInnovation Pte Ltd Prof
Patrick Loh Mr Lim Teck Sin
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The iGATES Initiative

• Objective
• To address food safety and traceability of herbs
  via development of worlds first online portal
  that integrates Good Agronomic Practice
  certification scheme from Seed-to-Shelf

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The iGATES Approachintegrated GAP-TCM Electronic
System
Ensuring Good Quality Raw Material with full
traceability and food safety for herbs at and
from source

• Good Herbal Production

Ensuring Accurate Laboratory Testing Results with
Chemical Genomic Profiling
iGATES EYS-GAP Certification Scheme
4. Good Distribution Practice (GDP)
2. Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
Enabling traceability of transportation of
finished goods
(GMP) 3. Good Manufacturing Practice
Assuring quality during the manufacturing process
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EYSGAP-Herbs Standards Five Components

• Good farm production and management practices
• Cultivation Site Selection, Farm Structures/
  Facilities, Sowing (Planting Materials), Plant
  Growth (Soil and Nutrient Management, Water,
  Irrigation and Drainage Management), Crop
  Protection and Maintenance (Integrated Pest and
  Weed Management, Agrochemicals, Other Chemicals)
• Harvesting (Farm Harvest, Wild Collection)
• Post-harvest Handling (Good Manufacturing
  Practice, Primary Processing, Packaging and
  Labeling, Storage, Transport)
• Traceability and Product Recall
• Internal Quality Management Control
  (Organisations Food Safety Policy and
  Regulations, Competency, Communication and
  Training of Personnel, Documents and Records,
  Internal Audit and Review of Practices)
• Reference to International GAP WHO, CODEX,
  American Herbal Products
• Association (AHPA) and EUREPGAP/ GLOBALGAP and
  ASEAN GAP

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EYSGAP-Herbs StandardsScope
Field Visit in Oct 07

• Covers all the herbal production operation
  cultivation, harvesting and post-harvesting
  handling of TCM plants
• in locations where herbal raw materials are
  produced, handled, semi-processed and packed in a
  raw/ unprocessed or semi-processed form needed
  for further processing by EYSI into high valued
  herbal products

Eu Yan Sang Good Agronomic Practice for Herbs
(EYSGAP-Herbs) Certification Scheme A Handbook
For Supplier (Farm Operator/ Sub-Contractor)
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Audit of EYSGAP-Herbs System - Lingzhi Farm,
Fuzhou, China
Inspecting the Lingzhi (Ganoderma Lucidum)
cultivating environment and farm structures
The farm production system was well established
with good farm layout and practices that has
complied fully to the EYSGAP-Herbs Standards
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Audit of EYSGAP-Herbs System - Lingzhi Farm,
Fuzhou, China
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Embedding inoculated logs
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Audit of EYSGAP-Herbs System - Lingzhi Farm
Packinghouse
Dedicated clean warehouse for storage of
harvested Lingzhi which were bagged and raised
above ground on pallets
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KOOPrimeBioEngine for Life Sciences
BIOENGNIE
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iGATES BioInnovationFood Safety Traceability
Portal
Patent Trademark pending
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HKUST-KP-HP Bioinformatics CentreInnovation -
Good Laboratory Pratice
Chemical Profiling
Genomics Profiling
Data (Profile) Collection
To manage Raw data
Data Pre-Process
To normalize data
Update Sample Table
De- replicate Profile
Profile exist
New Profile
Append to DataWarehouse
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Key Targets

• Implement GAP as first line of electronic defence
• Integrate Chemical and Genomic Fingerprinting
  technologies as part of GLP
• Propose framework for complete seed-to-shelf
  tracking
• Explore how iGATES can be extended for food

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Contribution to Singapore beyond

• Making available the usage of an on-line portal
  to address public food safety and traceability
  issues of TCMs from Seed to Shelf
• iGATES captures, digitizes and share the know-how
  of good food safety and traceability practices,
  e.g. EYSGAP-Herbs.
• Efficiently detect and prevent distribution/sale
  of unsafe TCMs
• Rapid tracking of sources upon breakouts or
  queries
• Provide quality assurance of herbs cost
  effectively

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Acknowledgement

• Prime Ministers Office, The Enterprise
  Challenge (TEC)
• Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore
  (AVA)

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iGATES(integrated Good Agronomic Practice for
Traditional Chinese Medicine Electronic
System)Thank You