Stop Health Canada From Taking Away Your Natural Health Products
Health Canada is reevaluating its standards and processes for “self-care products” available to Canadian consumers. They propose to regulate cosmetics, NHPs, and non-prescription drugs under the same set of regulation.
These unnecessary changes will treat all natural health products (NHP’s) like pharmaceutical drugs. This over-regulation will negatively impact how NHP developers, manufacturers, and distributors do business, forcing a downstream effect on retailers and consumers.
What does this mean for you?
- Reduced selection as manufacturers will have to scale back production
- You will lose your right to access products that support your wellbeing
- Fewer innovative products introduced to market
- Less research and development of products
- Forced to buy from unregulated foreign markets
- See costs rise for products you use everyday such as toothpaste, over the counter products, deodorants and sunscreen just to name a few
- Shrinking workforces in all sectors of the industry
You can learn more about the proposed changes.
Health Canada is currently looking for feedback from consumers and manufacturers and will close to new input on July 26, 2023, at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).