在加拿大，关于天然健康产品（NHP）的未来，正在酝酿麻烦。
加拿大卫生部正在对所有类型的NHP发起全面攻击：草药产品、
这影响到医疗保健专业人员，如中医/Acu、自然疗法医生、
这些变化被认为是没有商量余地的，或者用另一种说法是独裁的，
弗雷泽研究所2016年对免费和替代医学（CAM）
加拿大卫生部目前的这一举措是医疗保健选择方面的巨大倒退，
目前的草药产品的供应量和范围将减少，成本将大幅增加，
我们的中医草药产品的供应商，许多已经符合要求，
你能做什么？
1.阅读所附的立场文件
2. 给你的国会议员打电话、发电子邮件、写信。
3.3. 给加拿大卫生部、卫生部长和总理办公室打电话、写邮件，
4.你购买的商店会有一个活动，参与其中。
5.写信给卫生部长、总理和你的MLA，
6.6.与你的医生交谈，告诉他们你想要医疗保健的选择，
7.7.与你的朋友、邻居、健身房或瑜伽课上的人交谈，
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There is trouble brewing in Canada regarding the future of Natural Health Products (NHP).
Health Canada is launching a full scale assault on NHP of all types: herbal products, supplements, vitamins, probiotics and products yet to be specified.
This impacts Health Care professionals such as TCM/Acu, Naturopathic Doctors, Chiropractors, Herbalists and Nutritionists amongst others. It will also impact stores where you shop whether a natural health store such as Community Natural Foods, standard grocery stores like Co-op or Superstore and big box stores like Costco. It will even impact people who sell through MLM companies.
These changes are framed as non-negotiable or to phrase another way dictatorial, and were developed in absence of expected consultation with stakeholders and the public.
A 2016 survey of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by the Fraser institute showed 79% of Canadians use CAM in the previous 12 months and spent $2.3 billion on vitamins and supplements.
This current move by Health Canada is huge set back in health care choice and is not reflective of the safety of herbal products for sale in Canada. If this goes through, a health store or supplier will need to pay a "sellers fee" of over $500 PER PRODUCT to stock it. Most health food stores have 2000+ products...putting the seller's fee at a completely unattainable rate for small businessds.
Current herbal products will reduce in availability, breadth and will significantly increase in cost, rendering most people unable to access even quality basics like multivitamins or products they have found useful.
Our suppliers of TCM Herbal products, many already compliant, will face huge increases in fees for site licensing and individual product licensing. This will effectively force them to choose what products to carry, making key formulations that are required less frequently unavailable because they won’t be commercially viable, within the timeframes of products expiring. This will also again drive cost base up on products we have already seen over the last few years due to supply chain issues.
What can you do?
1. Read the attached position paper
2. Call, email, write your Member of Parliament. JAM their phone lines and tell them to leave your NHPs alone. If you have a second home, cottage or attend school in a second location, contact them also.
3. Call, write, email Health Canada, the Health Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office and do the same
4. Stores where you purchase will have a campaign, participate in it. I picked up postcards from Community Natural Foods and willl have them in my office. Please fill one out, I will take them back.
5. Write the Health Minister, Premier and your MLA, because healthcare is a provincial responsibility that Health Canada is overstepping and creating a monopolistic stranglehold impacting YOU.
6. Talk to your Doctor tell them you want health care choices and choose to use a variety of approaches to manage your health.
7. Talk to your friends, neighbours, people at your gym or yoga class who may not even know this is happening.
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