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	Announcements
	Directorates and Offices
	Latest Updates
	HPFB Newsletters
	Public Involvement
	Reports and Publications

Health Products and Food Branch

The Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB)'s mandate is to take an integrated approach to managing the health-related risks and benefits of health products and food by:

• minimizing health risk factors to Canadians while maximizing the safety provided by the regulatory system for health products and food; and,
• promoting conditions that enable Canadians to make healthy choices and providing information so that they can make informed decisions about their health.

Our Branch Fact Sheets provide a better understanding of HFPB activities.

Directorates and Offices

Health Products and Food Branch activities are carried out through offices in the National Capital Region and five regional offices: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Nunavut, Manitoba-Saskatchewan and Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

• Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate
• Food Directorate
• Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate
• Health Products and Food Litigation Secretariat
• Marketed Health Products Directorate
• Natural Health Products Directorate
• Office of Biotechnology and Science
• Office of Consumer and Public Involvement
• Office of Management Services
• Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion
• Office of Regulatory and International Affairs
• Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister
• Policy and Strategic Planning Directorate
• Regional Operations
• Therapeutic Products Directorate
• Veterinary Drugs Directorate

HPFB Newsletters

• Profiles in Progress - the Health Products and Food Branch at Work
• Involving You - keeping stakeholders and interested Canadians in touch with HPFB activities and plans