Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. We know first-hand through our engagement that a significant portion of businesses would be financially unviable. Those businesses employ Canadians and service other Canadians. Products on the shelf would be drastically reduced and the price

Health committee  I think I would reference back to the congratulations to this committee for the work that was done in 1998 and 2004 on the extensive consultation—hundreds of testimonies and patient groups—and then to the complete lack of engagement on this one. We didn't hear about cost recovery

Health committee  That would be from 2020 to the current date.

Health committee  I appreciate the question. The answer is, no, it does nothing to address the potential.

Health committee  The underpinning narrative is this: The industry is very open to conveying information in the clearest, most easily understood format. That's accepted across the industry. What is challenged is that we're not embracing modern labelling solutions. You mentioned a few. There are

Health committee  It's not only about self-regulation. It's about confidence in the regulatory system we have today. There isn't a need, necessarily, for self-regulation, because there is such a robust and thorough premarket and postmarket regulatory regime existing in Canada today.

Health committee  We would agree with that. The vast majority of our members appreciate and understand the benefit of a strong regulatory environment. I think that's why we're so proud of the regulations that we have today, and we've quoted many times that we're seen as a gold standard internation

Health committee  I think we have a very strong, internationally recognized and robust regulatory system for natural health products—absolutely.

Health committee  I appreciate the question. What we've determined is that this information is very hard to define. We actually had to engage with a third party management consultant group for us to try to scrub the data that is currently housed in the database for MedEffect. They discovered, afte

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. Obviously, since we've been made aware—and as Mr. Harrington noted, that was very late in the process and I think counter to some of the commitments that we had received from the department—we've been working quite diligently. Obviously, it

Health committee  We have. One of the roles we play as the representative for this industry in Canada is liaising with groups around the world. In those discussions, I will convey that we are, undoubtedly, seen as a standard for how to balance consumer interests and the interests of businesses i

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Adam, CHFA member and former director general of the NHPD, for joining me today. I want to begin by saying thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today on the regulatory and legislative approach to natural health products by the

Health committee  Health Canada has now simultaneously implemented and proposed multiple regulatory changes for natural health products under the self-care framework, which was initiated in 2014 and was intended to bring together low-risk products such as cosmetics, natural health products and ove

Industry committee  I would say the majority of what I'm prepared to speak to today is around Health Canada. I think our members, as some of the other presenters today have said, are firmly committed to working with different organizations to find the best outcome for both sides. Specifically today,

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I think there is a predictability to what we have now. What concerns our members the most, I think, is the phasing and the rollout of what's been discussed in future changes to the self-care framework. It's the ability to predict the timing and the sc