The department has an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer that tests for traces of arsenic, lead, mercury, copper and other substances; a gas chromatography mass spectrophotometer that detects residual pesticides; and a high-performance liquid chromatography instrument that checks for aflatoxins. This cluster of high-tech machinery can't help but make people feel that Chinese medicine has truly entered the realm of the scientific.
像分析產品中砷、鉛、汞、銅等各種微量元素濃度的「感應耦合電漿質譜分析儀」，用來偵測農藥殘留的「氣相層析質譜儀」，檢測分析黃麴毒素的「高效液相層析儀」等，光是看這些高科技儀器，就讓人覺得被質疑不夠「科學」的中藥，已經邁入「科學」的行列。