The current 60% failure rate for product license applications has mainly involved applications for single-ingredient products. This means that 60% of single ingredient NHPs have failed to pass Health Canada?s stringent safety and efficacy standards.

What Natural Health Products Will be Left Once Health Canada is Finished Judging 60% of Single-Ingredient NHPs Illegal and 80-90% of Multi-Ingredient NHPs Illegal ? Because Health Canada has been so slow to process license applications, NHP manufacturers and retailers have not yet had to decide what they will do when the overwhelming majority of […]

The Immediate Threat The immediate threat facing the Natural Health Product industry is the implementation of the drug-style Natural Health Product Regulations. The NHPPA is concerned that the industry is: being subjected to drug-style regulations that are too onerous for the risk profile presented by Natural Health Products; open to arbitrary attacks by the regulatory […]

The NHPPA is seeking to bring about a long-term solution to the current regulatory threat. The NHPPA is concerned that if the industry pursues a solution that is only short-term, that the industry could exhaust itself seeking a short-term solution and then find itself under regulatory threat in a couple of years time. For example, […]

Prepared by Shawn Buckley, president of the NHPPA Purpose of the Paper Yesterday the Minister of Health introduced Bill C-51 into the House of Commons. The Bill passed first reading.