Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada's pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.
The order affects thousands of herbal treatments, multi-vitamins and other products, most of them waiting for approval from Health Canada under a backlogged, five-year-old program to regulate natural-health goods.'
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Yes this has been coming for a year. Combine it with the pronouncement by the BC medical Assoc that vitamins should be treated as OTC drug, voila.
ReplyDeleteI can tellyou for a fact that the CFIA (Cdn Food Inspection Agency - the Food Police) constantly harrass anyone in small town BC raising chickens, butchering a pig etc.
If you are going to clamp down, you must clamp down all over.
This connects to the Trans national agreement between the US and Eu which drags both Canada and Mexico into the agreements via NAfTa