FNH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Natural Health Product, Canada Gazette, Health Canada
5 Sep 2018
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Fnh 200 - 13. 3 natural and non-prescription health products (nnhps) "recent surveys have shown that more than one-half of canadian consumers regularly take vitamins and minerals, herbal products, homeopathic medicines and the like, products that have come to be known as natural and non-prescription health products (nnhps). " "these products are used to prevent, diagnose or treat disease, restore or correct function, or maintain or promote health. Nnhps may be derived from plants, animals or micro-organisms. " (reference: health canada, health products and food branch, natural and non-prescription. Health products directorate, expert advisory committee on natural and non-prescription. Quoted, with bold font added, from the november 2003 (issue 7) health. These questions have led to the creation within health canada of a new office of health. The new natural and non-prescription health products regulations were published in june. 2003, in canada gazette, part ii, and came into effect on january 1, 2004, with a transition period for phasing in and compliance.
