A recent story from CBC's Marketplace demonstrated just how easy it is to get approval to sell a product and make various health claims.
As the article says, the process is a joke.
Some of the people yammering on about "Big Pharma" and the profit driven pharmaceutical industry are the same people claiming the superiority of these so-called "natural" medicines.
Pharmaceutical drugs need to subject their products to extensive medical trials before they are licensed. This is as it should be. Many "natural" products do not.
It's time to subject everything to the same standard before they can be sold and especially before they can made claims about safety and effectiveness.
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