In 1998 the Canadian government and Natural Health Products industry put out a report, “Natural Health Products: A Shared Vision”. NHP’s were neither food nor drugs, and so required a separate framework. The Health Food industry worked hard to comply with these standards for their license. 41,000 applications were sent in, and to date, 6 years later, 16,000 have been approved.
The government was not ready for the task. They didn’t understand the complexity of the products and had no initial training in how to test and license the ‘mixed ingredients’ products. So, they were backlogged and way, way behind.
Problem is, those product licenses end this April. And the government won’t change the process.
What does that mean to you?
Your choices will be cut to 1/3 of what is available on shelves now. Potentially hundreds if not thousands of people will be unemployed, store shelves will be bare, and another viable, growing industry (28%/year) will be curtailed.
What can you do?
Please sign the e-card provided on this site: Save Our Natural Health Products and get it to your politician ASAP!
Link to find your MP: My MP’s info
Natural Voice blog has good audio to help inform you of this John Harrison is especially informative.
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