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Article: Govt panel recommends streamlined rules for natural health products in Canada.
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- March 2, 1998
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A Canadian government advisory panel has presented an interim report to a House of Commons committee urging that a new regulatory scheme should be set up for natural health products. The report's principal point is that such products are fundamentally different from drugs and therefore should be treated in a different way, and through an entirely separate system to that in place for drugs (see also page 11).
The panel - comprising representatives of the natural products industry, consumers and representatives of ethnic communities which favor herbal remedies - was appointed in May 1997 as a result of public concerns that natural products are over-regulated.
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