ABSTRACT
Medicinal animal resource is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine resource. With the decreasing of wild medicinal animal resources, it is necessary to carry out the artificial breeding of medicinal animal to ensure the sustainable development of traditional Chinese medicine industry. There are 106 kinds of medicinal animals in Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2015 Edition), only 22 species (except livestock and poultry) of them have selection or breeding standards, while most of the 211 legislations are local standards. It is far behind the degree of agricultural standardization which can not achieve standardized production of animal medicinal materials. It is urgent to establish a technical standard system for production and processing of medicinal materials of animal-derivative, including basic, product, process, safety, environmental protection, management and working standards for common animal medicinal materials, which can fill the gap of industry and control the quality of animal medicinal materials, animal Chinese herbal pieces and products containing animal ingredients from the source.