Thank you.
I want to pick up on a theme I was working on earlier with regard to standardized regulations, because paragraph 2.23 references:
Health Canada relied on inspections, such as drug inspections, performed by domestic and regulatory authorities from other countries when licensing these sites. However, we found that the department did not have assurance that 10 of these 13 sites followed good manufacturing practices because the department did not have evidence that these inspections included the natural health product lines.
Going along with the theme of trying to make sure we have equal regulations and processes in place, Health Canada doesn't have a program to conduct routine on-site inspections for manufacturing sites, yet Australia and Europe do. Why is there a gap there, especially when we're relying on other countries?
If we're trying to streamline and standardize these regulations, there appear to be some existing gaps. I wonder if there are some comments there.