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Received date : 21-11-2021 Revised date : 05-12-2021 Accepted date : 08-12-2021 Published date : 31-12-2021

Mediterr J Pharm Pharm Sci 1 (4): 20-24, 2021

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

Mini-review


Post-market surveillance of natural health products in Canada

Abrahem M. Abrahem


Abstract
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.
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