Health committee  Just very briefly, yes. I wanted to comment that I'd like to see everybody kind of step back. We're all dealing with this issue of a shortage of resources and wait list times. We're coming from a different perspective. We'd like to see the resources focused more on health promo

Health committee  Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to comment during the review of the 10-year plan to strengthen health care in Canada. As mentioned, my name is Anne Wilkie and I'm the vice-president and head of regulatory affairs for the Canadian Health Food Association. The presiden

Health committee  Thank you. Just in terms of compliance, it's very difficult to go out there. The industry is desperately trying to comply with the regulations now. But the way the regulations were written, as of January 1, 2004, when they came into effect, all 50,000 products on the market had

Health committee  Following on the previous comments, the industry has always been supportive of appropriate regulations. We're finding the challenge is the interpretation of the regulations and the implementation of them, and we find that it's biased by the very fact that we are a subset of drugs

Health committee  Merci. I have a couple of things to clarify. There is mandatory reporting of adverse events for the industry within the natural health products regulations. So there is a requirement on industry to report adverse events. We fully support the education of consumers, but based o

Health committee  Clinical trials would be required, depending on the strength of the claim. The understanding with the natural health products regulations is that the level of evidence required is based on the strength of the claim. So if you're making it a structured function that basic calcium