A non-profit that works to protect access to natural health products (NHPs) is warning that provisions in the 2023 federal budget affecting these products will be the “death knell” of the industry unless some portions are repealed.
Bill C-47, the Budget Implementation Act, which received royal assent June 22, “amends the Food and Drugs Act to extend measures regarding therapeutic products to natural health products”—such as vitamins, herbal remedies, and homeopathic and traditional medicine—something the act previously explicitly excluded.
While the bill says the amendment, whose effective date is yet to be determined, is to strengthen safety oversight, the Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA) takes a vastly different view….