To avoid having herbal pharmacists lose everything when and if a complete ban is declared (as many did when the sale of rhino horns and tiger bones was prohibited), the department wants to coordinate a timetable to allow the pharmacists to sell off their stocks. It has also commissioned Yang Ming Medical College to proceed with research on substitutes for bear gall.
為了不再重蹈即刻禁用犀角、虎骨，讓中藥商平白損失的覆轍，衛生署將協調一個時限，讓業者用完現有存貨，並委託陽明醫學院進行熊膽替代品的研究。