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Article: Natural health products--neither food nor drugs.(REGULATORY NEWS)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The Canadian Health Food Association, Canada's largest trade association representing the natural products and organics industry, is asking federal parliamentarians to make good on a promise made ten years ago when reviewing legislation to amend the current Food and Drugs Act or Bill C-51.
Tabled April 8, Bill C-51 is intended to modernize Canada's regulatory system for foods, drugs, and cosmetics, which hasn't seen a major review since 1953. According to Health Canada, "therapeutic products" covers all products used for therapeutic purposes, such as drugs, medical devices, cells, tissues, organs, and veterinary drugs, as well as natural health products (NHPs).
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