Health on the Hill | Health Canada Moves to Outlaw Compounding
Many practitioners still compound remedies for individual patients. Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, herbalists, homeopaths, and naturopaths have long mixed natural ingredients to meet a patient’s specific needs. The Natural Health Product Regulations were written to protect this practice. Parliament was clear: Health Canada does not regulate compounding by health care practitioners. Yet Health Canada has now published a new policy designed to shut most compounding down. The policy invents conditions that do not exist in the law. Practitioners would be blocked if a similar licensed…
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