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Our unique combination of regulatory, research and clinical trial expertise makes NHP Licensing Solutions a licensing powerhouse. We can provide solutions for your traditional and non-traditional licensing needs that others may have failed to accomplish, including obtaining NPNs for Natural Health Products for Schedule A diseases.
Do you have numerous IRNs on an application? Has complex information been requested? Do you need a reinstatement? For an hourly fee NHP licensing will manage the file, endeavoring to resolve the IRN in a timely manner with favorable results.
Let the experts do your PLAs. Using numerous resources we will come up with the best strategy to get your product licensed.
Using an ingredient that isn't on the database? Let us help you get it submitted.
Confused about Health Canada Policy, maybe we can help. Send us your questions.
The use of Oil or Oregano dates back over 2,000 years and provides a range of health benefits yet the Natural Health Product Directorate (NHPD) assesses applications based on weak (by today's standards) animal toxicity studies from 1931. Should the industry accept such risk-averse policies based on archaic and flawed studies or 'push back'?
An article by Marco Torres, Health Canada Wants Canadians Sick, Diseased And Addicted To Pharmaceuticals, recently appeared on the Canadian Awareness Network. According to Health Canada the regulations were created after consulting consumers, academics, health care practitioners and industry stakeholders, the aim being to address consumer concerns about the availability and safety of natural health products. However the majority of consumers are oblivious to the plight of the NHP industry, the process of getting products licensed, or the restrictions on claims despite the historical use of some herbs.
On the 8th of February 2012, Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) representatives held a press conference on Parliament Hill covering the topic of the Harper government's Red Tape Reduction Commission Report. To show support for the governments activities in sustaining Canadian Natural Health Products thriving industry by Getting Natural Health Product Regulations Right, Helen Sherrard (CHFA) and Marie Provost (CHFA) cut through red tape at the steps of Centre Block.
The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) has concluded that BroccoGen 10 (Newco Enterprises Inc.) is in compliance of section 7 of the Natural Health Products Regulations.
The natural health product industry has been up in arms over an editorial published in CMAJ, “No regulatory double standard for natural health products”. It's obvious that the author has never attempted to apply for a licence for a natural health product. He obviously knows nothing about the requirements and stipulations upon the natural health product industry that have to be met for every product on the market for consumer safety and efficacy of the claim.
The natural health products industry seems to be under fire from several groups; Health Canada - who are becoming ever increasingly more stringent, the pharmaceutical industry - for obvious reasons and health care professionals - who generally think natural medicine is “mumbo jumbo”.
A recent editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, alleges that natural health products are not scrutinized enough by the Natural Health Product Directorate (NHPD) and that they should undergo the same assessment as pharmaceuticals.
Would such an assessment regime remove many of the natural health products on the market today?
