GB 21906-2008
Discharge standard of water pollutants for pharmaceutical industry Chinese traditional medicine category (English Version)

Standard No.

GB 21906-2008

Language

Chinese, Available in English version

Release Date

2008

Published By

中华人民共和国环境保护部

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GB 21906-2008

Scope

This standard specifies the discharge limits of water pollutants from traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical enterprises or production facilities. This standard is applicable to the management of water pollutant discharge of existing traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical enterprises or production facilities. This standard is applicable to the environmental impact assessment, environmental protection facility design, completion environmental protection acceptance and water pollutant discharge management of construction projects of traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical industry. This standard is applicable to the pharmaceutical industry enterprises that use medicinal plants and medicinal animals as the main raw materials and produce various dosage forms of Chinese herbal medicines and Chinese patent medicines in accordance with the National Pharmacopoeia. This standard is also applicable to water pollution prevention and management of traditional ethnic medicine and pharmaceutical industrial enterprises such as Tibetan medicine and Mongolian medicine, as well as veterinary drug manufacturers similar to traditional Chinese medicine. When Chinese medicine pharmaceutical industrial enterprises extract a specific pharmaceutical ingredient, they should implement the water pollutant discharge standards of the extracted pharmaceutical industry. This standard applies to the discharge of pollutants permitted by law. The site selection of newly established pollution sources and the management of existing pollution sources in special protection areas shall be in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Marine Environmental Protection, and the The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Radioactive Pollution, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment, and other laws, regulations, and rules shall be implemented. The water pollutant discharge control requirements stipulated in this standard are applicable to the discharge behavior of enterprises to environmental water bodies. When enterprises discharge wastewater into urban drainage systems with sewage treatment plants, the toxic pollutants total mercury and total arsenic shall implement corresponding discharge limits at the monitoring positions specified in this standard; the discharge control requirements for other pollutants shall be determined by enterprises and urban sewage treatment plants. Negotiate or implement relevant standards based on their sewage treatment capacity, and report to the local environmental protection authority for record; urban sewage treatment plants should ensure that the pollutants discharged meet the requirements of relevant discharge standards. When a construction project intends to discharge wastewater into the urban drainage system with a sewage treatment plant, the construction unit and the urban sewage treatment plant shall implement the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

GB 21906-2008 Referenced Document

• GB/T 11893-1989 Water quality--Determination of total phosphorus--Ammonium molybdate spectrophotometric method
• GB/T 11894-1989 Water quality--Determination of total nitrogen--Alkaline potassium persulfate digestion-UV spectro photometric method
• GB/T 11901-1989 Water quality--Determination of suspended substance--Gravimetric method
• GB/T 11903-1989 Water quality--Determination of colority
• GB/T 11914-1989 Water quality--Determination of the chemical oxygen demand--Dichromate method
• GB/T 13193-1991 Water quality--Determination of TOC by nondispersive infrared absorption method
• GB/T 15441-1995 Method by use of photobacteria for detecting the acute toxicity of water quality
• GB/T 16488-1996 Water quality--Determination of petroleum oil, animal and vegetable oils--Infrared photometric method
• GB/T 6920-1986 Water quality--Determination of pH value--Glass electrode method
• GB/T 7468-1987 Water quality--Determination of total mercury--Cold atomic absorption spectrophotometry
• GB/T 7478-1987 Water quality--Determination of ammonium--Distillation and titration method
• GB/T 7479-1987 Water quality--Determination of ammonium-Nessler's reagent colorimetric method
• GB/T 7481-1987 Water quality--Determination of ammonium--Spectrophotometric method with salicylic acid
• GB/T 7485-1987 Water quality--Determination of total arsenic--Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method
• GB/T 7486-1987 Water quality--Determination of cyanide--Part 1:Determination of total cyanide
• GB/T 7488-1987 Water quality--Determination of biochemical oxygen demand after 5 days(BOD5)--Dilution and seeding method

GB 21906-2008 history

• 2008 GB 21906-2008 Discharge standard of water pollutants for pharmaceutical industry Chinese traditional medicine category