Health Canada is continuing to block natural health products from hitting Canadian shelves. In there most recent move a major NHP manufacturer has been forced to discontinue 53 safe, popular NHPs. Including Bee Pollen, Zinc, GABA, Resveratrol, Grapeseed extract, cinnamon, boron, Gaba, B12, and boswellia.

When the regulations started in 2004, Health Canada classified NHPs as “DRUGS”. This meant that there were now two classes of drugs: synthetic pharmaceuticals, which are patentable, and NHPs, (vitamins, minerals, herbs, probiotics, etc.)

Within three years, this requirement had eliminated well over 20,000 imported American products from Canada, because their makers couldn’t justify the cost or hassle.

American made NHP's that are safe and very effective are slowly being blocked from the small Canadian market. Health Canada is accomplishing this by setting very high and costly testing standards, that these companies cannot afford to provide. In return for the small return. And bet your bottom dollar that Health Canada knew this would be the case!

It is a calm and collected way for Codex Alimentarius to be phased into Canada.


According to the Herb Regulation In Canada, under section C. The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission

* The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission aims to harmonize international food standards to protect consumers against health hazards and fraud; to ensure safe practices in the food trade; and to facilitate international trade in food and food products.

* In 1997, the Codex Commission’s Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses reviewed concerns over potentially harmful herbs and botanical products sold as foods. It stated that the toxicity of herbs is essentially a safety problem with no nutritional implications and recommended that national authorities establish lists of potentially harmful plants on a toxicological basis.

* As one of its 151 member countries, Canada is free to adopt or reject the standards, guidelines and recommendations the Commission develops. The herbal community is concerned that Canada will yield to international trade pressure but Health Canada stresses that the World Trade Organization does not have the authority to require countries to adopt and enforce a Codex finding.
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According to this Canada is free to adopt these standards or not to, but unfortunately Health Canada seems hell bent on imposing these draconian measures, on top of the other draconian measures like the consumer product safety act. To keep Canadians safe from products that have been in the market place for decades, without one known death caused by any of them. But you know things like Bee Pollen and Grapeseed extract are so dangerous, they just can't take that chance!

It is very clear that health Canada is fully on board with codex, and is being backed by the big pharma corporations that want the Canadian people unable to naturally defend themselves. Big pharma/health Canada wants all of you fully dependent on their ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuticals!

This email was posted by Kevin P Miller HERE

Hello,
I regret to be the bearer of bad news. I have received confirmation of the new Health Canada enforcement intent for 2011. On March 1, 2011 Health Canada begins full enforcement of nhp’s.

Here are the details:

On March 1, 2011 retailers will not be permitted to purchase unlicensed stock from suppliers (EN or NPN is required), regardless of a submission being in queue.·

On March 1, 2011 importers will not be allowed to import unlicensed products (EN or NPN required).·

On September 1, 2011 retailers will not be allowed to sell to consumers any product that does not have an EN or NPN. In other words, retailers will be allowed to continue selling out unlicensed stock from now until September 1, 2011 — but after September 1, 2011 they will not be permitted to sell unlicensed stock.

This is a drastic sea change in policy, and I need to emphasize with all of you that this is no small matter. I strongly encourage for those of you who are CHFA members to send your feedback to Helen Sherrard (hsherrard@chfa.ca) and let them know how you feel. They need feedback. So that you are aware, a strong cross-stakeholder advocacy initiative is already under way — and I will be sending out invites to participate over the next month. We cannot afford to lose our innovative products, especially when Health Canada is not committed to changing their evidence standards.

The NHPD has also told us they are committing to changing some of their evidence standard guidelines. But I need to emphasize here — and I have learned this just today — that none of those evidence standard changes are with regards to how much / what type of evidence is required for what type of claim (i.e., this is our biggest challenge as always). While there are some minor changes that will be beneficial, for the most part these evidence standards have turned out to be minor and have been watered down by Health Canada. If you are a client of ours (excuse this blanket email), you need to ensure that you have all of your submissions in ASAP. You cannot bank on an advocacy change — if you intend to sell any products after March 1, 2011 then you need to have your submissions in now.

We are booking for January, please let Adrian Rodriguez (adrian@nhpconsulting.ca) know as soon as possible what your needs are.

Brian Brian Thomas Wagner, PresidentNHP Consulting Inc.

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