Natural Health Products

The Natural Health Product Directorate has produced numerous publications concerning its Directorate and its Regulatory framework. Committee publications, Transition team and consultations reports can be accessed electronically through these links.

Reports and Publications

• The Natural Health Products Regulatory Review Action Plan-Phase I
• Abbreviated Labelling Standards for Natural Health Products - Discussion Paper
• Final Report - Online Consultation: Natural Health Products Regulatory Review
  • Fact Sheet - The New Risk-Based Approach for Natural Health Products
  • The S.T.E.P.S Plan
• Proceedings: Health Canada International Symposium on Drug, Food, Natural Health Product Interactions
• Boron as a Medicinal Ingredient in Oral Natural Health Products
• Essential Fatty Acids - Discussion Paper
• Probiotics - Discussion Paper
• Natural Health Products: 53 Recommendations of the Standing Committee on Health
• Proposed Regulations - Canada Gazette Part I (December 22, 2001)
• Natural Health Products Research Priority-Setting Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 6-8, 1999
•  Natural Health Products: A New Vision
  (Report of the Standing Committee on Health, November 1998)

Natural Health Products Online Solution

• User Manuals:
  • Primer on Portable Document Format Forms
  • Electronic Submission Builder User Manual
  • Electronic Product Licence Application user manual
  • Natural Health Products Ingredients Database Issue Form Guide
  • Natural Health Products Ingredients Database Web Application Guide
  • Natural Health Products Online System Standard Terminology Guide
  • Guidance Document on how to interact with the Natural Health Products Directorate electronically
• NHP Online System - Invitation to Pilot Participants
• NHP Online System - Invitation to Pilot Phase II Participants

Links

• Advisory Committees
• Applications and Submissions
• Complementary & Alternative Health Care
• Guidance Documents
• It's Your Health - Safe Use of Natural Health Products
• Policies