In order to avoid insect damage, suitable fumigants may be used to preserve crude drugs, provided that the fumigants are so readily volatilized as to be harmless at the usual dosage of the crude drugs, and such fumigants that may affect the therapeutic efficacy of the crude drugs or interfere with the testing are precluded.〔【出典】第十六改正日本薬局方(平成23年3月24日 厚生労働省告示第65号)〕
農業における薫蒸剤の用途で生産される
be produced for use as a fumigation in agriculture