March 02, 2009
MP Mark Warawa Supports New OnLine System to Provide Canadians with Quicker Access to Safe Natural Health Products
“Having safe and reliable access to Natural Health Products is very important to Canadians, and is a very important issue to many Langley residents,” says Warawa. “Online Solution provides much more effective ways of getting these products safely to Canadians.”
The Natural Health Products Online Solution contains a world-class fully-searchable database of natural health product ingredients that includes 7,000 acceptable medicinal and non-medicinal ingredients. Natural health product manufacturers will also benefit from pre-cleared information, such as pre-approved ingredient information claims and conditions of use, as the basis for new product applications.
“Our Government is working closely with stakeholders to ensure that Canadians have access to safe and effective natural health products”, says Warawa. “This new world-class online system will speed up consumer access to these products by making the licensing process more efficient.”
Mark Warawa met with more than 80 Langley residents last year regarding the issue of natural health products. “I am pleased to be able to deliver to them the news that this new system will significantly reduce application processing time allowing us to eliminate backlogs and get safe natural products to consumers much more quickly”
For those wanting more information, please contact Health Canada at 1-866-225-0709.
The Online Solution initiative is one of a number of measures Health Canada has introduced to improve the efficiency of the application approval process for natural health products. It is estimated that the new system will significantly reduce the average application time which, to date, has been approximately sixty business days.
