• Strategies of quality control for Chinese medicine. • Optimization of marker for quality control of Chinese medicine. • Samples preparation for quality control. • New development for extraction, separation, and purification of major groups of active components. • Application of modern biology on quality control of Chinese medicine. • Chemical identification of major groups. • Significant factors affecting the quality of Chinese medicine. • Origin and species identification. • Analysis of residual pesticides, heavy metals and arsenic salts. • Contemporary analytical techniques in the quality control of Chinese medicine. • Spectrophotometry, chromatography, mass spectrophotometry and their combined applications. Pre-requisite: None

CILO-1: Understand the strategies, methodologies and techniques for quality control of Chinese medicines. CILO-2: Learn the basic principles, applications and latest developments of modern instrumental methodologies. CILO-3: Operate common sample preparation and analytical equipment such as PLE, LC, LC-MS, GC, GC-MS and CE.