Canada Tilts At Unneeded Fixes In Self-Care Product Regulation Overhaul – Industry

摘要

Health Canada says its planned overhaul will not scrap the current natural health product framework, but industry is skeptical. In a Council for Responsible Nutrition webinar, an industry consultant says marketers of OTC drugs, supplements and cosmetics are discussing the proposal's negative implications with the agency. The dietary supplement industry suspects that despite Health Canada's pledge not to scrap its current regulatory framework in its “self-care” products regulation overhaul, the agency nonetheless is trying to reinvent the wheel. “There’s a lot of concern amongst industry that the existing natural health products framework would be discarded,” said Krista Coventry, of Source Nutraceutical Inc., during a June 13 Council for Responsible Nutrition webinar, “North American Free Trade Agreement and Opportunities Overseas.”