Health Canada has authorized functional claims that Chr Hansen’s probiotic DDS-1 strain, “helps alleviate perceived stress and improve irritable bowel syndrome-related quality of life in adolescents and adults”.
Proposed and implemented changes to how Health Canada regulates its natural health product (NHP) sector are ‘throwing out a lot of progress’, experts tell NutraIngredients-USA.
By Aaron Skelton, President and Chief Executive Officer at Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA)
In an attempt to overhaul an already effective system, Health Canada's new regulatory measures for dietary supplements are inadvertently causing more harm than good – not only to Canadian consumers, retailers, and brands but also to U.S. suppliers.
When it comes to regulating CBD and cannabis, Canada is an extreme cautionary tale for the US, says Adam Gibson, the former Director General of Health Canada’s Non-prescription and Natural Health Products Directorate.
By Katrina Coughlin, Laura E. Gomez, Jon-Paul Powers, PhD, Lewis Retik, & Lauren Richardson - Gowling WLG
On May 12, 2023, Health Canada published a proposal detailing cost recovery fees for natural health products (NHPs). While there is a lot of information to digest in Health Canada's proposal, the proposed fees detailed below raise questions regarding...
Health Canada has issued a product license from Health Canada for AP-Bio (also known as KalmCold in Europe), a standardized extract of Andrographis paniculate.
Kemin’s spearmint extract Neumentix Phenolic Complex K110-42 has received approval from Health Canada for use in helping support cognitive function, sustained attention and working memory.
The ingredient - which is soy fermented by Lactobacillus delbrueckii, ssp. delbrueckii also known as Rosell-187 or R-187 – achieved the claim for its benefits in supporting intestinal/ gastrointestinal health.
As the conversation around modernizing DSHEA hots up in the US and calls for a mandatory product registration intensify, we caught up with the former Director General of Health Canada’s NHP Directorate to hear about his experiences regulating Natural...
Probiotics player Chr. Hansen has received authorization from Health Canada for a functional claim that “DDS-1 helps improve abdominal pain severity and symptomology in Irritable Bowel Syndrome in adolescents and adults.”
Nature’s Crops International, manufacturer of Ahiflower oil, an omega-3 rich plant oil, has announced its product has received Health Canada approval for use in foods.
Dr Traj Nibber, trained as a pharmacist, moved from the UK to Canada to start a pharmacy in 1989. Realizing that it’s hard to compete against the big chains, he shifted focus to supplements.
Health Canada had extended a warning on dietary supplement products being sold in Canada with Natural Products Numbers and containing illegal ingredients such as yohimbine and sildenafil analogues.
Products containing lithium orotate—a salt of a mineral that has been used to treat psychiatric disorders—have been the subject of two Health Canada warnings this year. Yet similar products are freely for sale south of the border, and don’t seem to be...
A new Health Canada ‘no objections letter’ expands manufacturers’ flexibility to formulate and market products with Ganeden’s branded Bacillus cogulans GBI-30, 6086 (or GanedenBC30 for short) in Canada. This includes leeway to use less than 1 billion...
Fruit d’ Or has obtained a Health Canada designation for its cranberry juice powder which comes with it the ability to make health claims on urinary tract infections. The approval comes at a time when the whole approval process in the country has been...
Health Canada has published its “What we heard” report, which shows differences in opinion between industry on one hand and consumers and healthcare professionals on the other.
Health Canada has received over 3,500 written comments in response to its proposed changes to how natural health products and dietary supplements are regulated.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition has submitted comments to a Health Canada that urges the agency not to scrap the existing product registration system but rather to further refine it if that is deemed necessary and to better educate the public about...
Health Canada is proposing to significantly change how natural health products and dietary supplements are regulated, with industry sources telling us the proposals are a concern.
Recent changes to the natural products sector in Canada have introduced more hurdles for companies entering that marketplace, but opportunities abound. In this guest article, Steven Page, president of Stalco, gives us his tips for success in the Canada.
The evidence has grown so strong for the best-documented probiotic strains that a generic digestive health claim should exist, according to a consensus statement from leading international researchers published this week in Nature Reviews: Gastroenterology...
Relora, the stress-reducing supplement ingredient from Next Pharmaceuticals, has cleared a major regulatory hurdle by obtaining approval from Health Canada for sale in that country.
Its technical advantages over rival oat and barley-based beta glucans mean Cargill’s Barliv high-purity, low viscosity barley beta fiber can be used in a wider variety of heart-healthy foods and beverages, the firm has claimed.
Guidelines for us of p-synephrine, the predominant alkaloid in bitter orange, has been redefined by Health Canada, with 1 to 50 mg per day of the compound now classified as not ‘likely to cause any adverse health consequences’.
DMAA, a substance used in sports and weight loss supplements and reported by some to be a natural constituent of geranium oil, is not isolated from plants and products containing it need drug authorization, Health Canada has announced.
A former Health Canada official has criticized the agency for failing to publish health claim-backing data, after recently approving an oat fiber-cholesterol health claim.
Health Canada is warning consumers about 13 sexual dysfunction products because they are laced with either sildenafil, a pharma ingredient typically used in sexual aids like Viagra.
Canadian public health association, Health Canada is unlikely to introduce strict new controls on unlicensed natural health products until next Fall, at the earliest, despite a commitment to implement new controls next March, warns a recent report.
The range of “unauthorised” Chaotic Beverages pulled from Canadian shelves recently on health fears will be reformulated to meet the country’s ingredient regulations, said importers of the product.
Health Canada has told consumers not to drink four “unauthorised” drinks made by Chaotic Beverages on fears they contain ingredients that could pose a health hazard to children.
The Canadian government is preparing proposals to allow the use of health claims on food labels that would highlight the heart health benefits of certain compounds.
Health Canada is considering granting food makers discretionary powers to fortify “junk foods” to improve their nutritional profile and the diets of Canadians.
A recently published monograph by Health Canada is ‘insufficient’ and could lead to a ‘fooling of the consumer’ according to a leading probiotics researcher.
The Canadian food and drugs regulator has issued guidance to assist the classification of those foods that, due to their associated health benefits may be classed as medicines, with an emphasis on case-by-case risk-benefit analysis.
Health Canada has extended its deadline for feedback on its food
health claims review, as it plans to update its assessment
framework to make the system clearer and the claims more credible.
In a new claim to fame, CV Technologies announced that Canada's
sixth largest city, Edmonton, will stockpile Cold-fx for emergency
workers as part of a broad pandemic preparedness plan.
Denomega Nutritional Oils has announced the Health Canada approval
of its omega-3 ingredients for use in most foods, thereby opening
up another market to the company.
Health Canada has approved Orafti's Beneo inulin as a dietary
fiber, allowing manufacturers to advertise higher fiber content on
food labels and opening the way for other brands to seek go-ahead.
Martek DHA, approved for use in infant formula in Canada since
2002, has obtained federal consent for use at higher doses in a
variety of foods, paving the way for food companies to offer
products with greater omega-3 content.
Confusion over the exact jurisdiction of Canada's Natural Health
Products Directorate does not bode well for nutraceutical food and
drinks seeking the federal stamp of approval that can lead to
better sales.
