In Canada, Health Canada has a lot of authority to mandate requirements as they relate to NHPs. We have a premarket system for both the licensing of the products and the facilities that import, manufacture, package and label natural health products. These must all be licensed by Health Canada, and we have to provide documentation to Health Canada in order to obtain those licences. Health Canada also has the authority to inspect those facilities.
If there are issues with the products identified, which can be when they're inspecting, or through safety information that comes to their attention from other countries, they can then take certain actions. They can ask companies to provide information or update their labelling. They can also suspend or cancel a licence if companies do not comply. That applies to both the product licences and the site licences for the facilities themselves.
