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Drugs and Health Products

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The Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate is responsible for branch-wide compliance and enforcement activities, enabling consistency of approach across the spectrum of regulated products. The Inspectorate core functions are compliance monitoring, and compliance verification and investigation, supported by establishment licensing of drugs and medical devices, and laboratory analysis.

The Inspectorate's activities apply to all drugs and devices as defined by the Food and Drug Act. This includes medical devices, human drugs, including natural health products, blood and blood components for transfusion, semen for assisted conception, cells, tissues, organs for transplantation, and veterinary drugs.

Last Updated: 2004-10-01 Top