Health Canada has announced their next steps on the proposed regulation for self-care products. Health Canada had conducted a public consultation on this proposal from September to October 2016. The result of the consultation showed that 3500 respondents believed that self-care product regulation is an important topic.
Phase I – Fall 2018: Introduce, for consultation, targeted amendments to the Natural Health Products Regulations to improve labelling of natural health products.
Phase II – Early 2019: Introduce, for consultation, targeted amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations to introduce a risk-based approach to regulatory oversight for non-prescription drugs.
Phase III – 2020: Introduce, for consultation, regulatory amendments to address health claims, risk-based regulatory oversight and recall or label change for all self-care products.