Mediterranean Journal Of Pharmacy And Pharmaceutical Sciences

Post-market surveillance of natural health products in canada

• Authors Details :  
• Abrahem M. Abrahem

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Market trends indicate that natural health products are being used to maintain health as well as prevent and treat many medical conditions. A recent Canadian survey showed that 71% of the Canadian population have used a natural health product. Among these, many reports that they take natural health products on a daily basis. This review emphasizes on Canadian post-market surveillance system that apply to natural health products for human use. The public's perception is that the natural health products are all-natural, safe and effective, but there is still a wide variety of harms linked with these products. The post-market surveillance system is the monitoring window to observe and control the adverse effects of using natural health products. There are many activities involved in the post-surveillance to ensure the quality of the approved natural health products. Despite the fact that post-market surveillance plays a very important role in eliminating and/or reduce the risk of using natural health products, there are still some challenges and more work to be done to improve the outcome of the post-market surveillance of the natural health products.

Article DOI & Crossmark Data

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5805941

Article Subject Details

• Health economics
• Medical education
• Pharmaceutical sciences
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacy

Article Keywords Details

• Canada
• natural health products
• post-market surveillance
• regulations
• Adverse Reactions

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