What you need to do Now:

Write to your MP especially if she or he is a member of the Liberal party and say: I support Dr. Grant Hill's C-307 to the extent that it represents an effort to protect dietary supplements and other natural products from overreaching regulation by Health Canada but parliament can and must do better.

I want legislation adopted that:

• Clearly defines supplements and other natural products as foods under Section 2 of the Act
• Allows dietary supplements and other natural products to make some claims like reasonable wellness and stricture/function claims and some (but not all therapeutic claims) without automatically being classified as drugs.
• Requires truth in labeling, that is requires manufacturers to list all of the ingredients in their products including additives and fillers.
• Sets reasonable manufacturing standards and requires the keeping of manufacturing records by all food producers including dietary supplement companies
• Require Health Canada and the Health Protection Branch to prove actual and substanial injury before natural products are removed from the shelves.
• Does not inadvertently let loose genetically engineered products without proper labeling or strip Health Canada of its legitimate drug regulations or prohibit Health Canada from exercising the precautionary rule in conformity with the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures as to brand new and novel products where there is insufficient evidence to prove safety.