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Article: Canada's consumers "protected when buying natural health products".
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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When Canada's medicines authority, Health Canada, brought in government regulations for the natural health product industry in 2004, the growing sector welcomed these and did everything to comply, says the Canadian Health Food Association. As a result, it adds, Canadian consumers have access to safe, efficacious and high quality products which are "the envy of the world."
Currently, the Natural Health Products Directorate has reviewed 10% of the 50,000 natural health products on the Canadian market. Given its resources, the NHPD has focused its compliance efforts on products promoted to specific populations, such as children and pregnant and nursing women that ...