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Article: Mixed reaction to new federal regulation of natural health products.
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- Natural Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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The Canadian government has recently announced support for both the natural products industry and the fledgling nutraceutical industry. But the announcement was greated with a mixture of enthusiasm and derision from the natural products industry. The country's health food trade association is supportive, while consumer health advocates claim the new policies will ultimately damage the industry, rather than help it. They say the policy will be especially detrimental to the many small businesses that make up the natural products industry.
At the end of March, the government's Standing Committee on Health released its long-awaited report "Natural Health Products: A ...