A large group of natural health product manufacturers, importers and distributors in Canada have joined forces to ensure retailers continue to have access to a broad range of new and existing Natural Health Products that Canadian consumers have relied on to keep their family healthy for so many years.
Your support is needed!
In order to preserve this access, we need you to engage your customers to send a clear message to our federal politicians.
There is a legitimate concern that as of April, 2010 many of the natural health products you currently sell will not be licensed for sale, and the availability of new NHPs will be significantly reduced unless improvements are made to the product licensing process. This will have a major impact on the industry's revenues, profitability, and viability in Canada.
In 2004, new NHP regulations were implemented to ensure Canadian consumers had access to a wide variety of safe, high quality and effective natural health products.
While our industry stringently endorses the manufacture and distribution of safe and effective products, the past 5 years have proven extremely challenging with a licensing rate of less than 35% for products that have been available in Canada and around the world for so many years.
With Health Canada's deadline of April 2010, our industry is approaching a breaking point. As a valued retailer we want to alert you to the significance of this situation and ask you for your support of our advocacy plan.
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As a group of NHP companies, we have been working with the CHFA to encourage Health Canada to review their existing "standards of evidence" and "product testing" requirements and recognize the more appropriate standards that CHFA has recommended. If this is not done, the number of natural health products available in Canada will significantly decline...and so will the industry.
Please support this effort by engaging your customers to
Send a Message to their Member of Parliament, the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister. Tell them to visit saveournaturalhealthproducts.ca to send a postcard today.
It's quick, easy, and free. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that Canadians continue to have access and choice to a wide variety of safe, high quality and effective natural health products and to maintain the viability of Canada's natural health product industry, including your store(s).
Your support is appreciated,
Canada's Natural Health Product Manufacturers, Importers and Distributors and
CHFA