Nature's Way's affiliation with Madaus AG is discussed in their website. Forced registration fees for DIN numbers will make it very hard for many small Canadian vitamin companies to remain in business, and some have already been driven under. It has a medicinal effect on the body. As an example, the HPB can say that an orange becomes a drug the moment you make the claim that eating oranges prevents scurvy. Cayenne pepper becomes a drug the moment you put it into capsules.
Prunes have an obvious medicinal effect.
A year ago they banned melatonin and chromium picolinate. Now they are going after herbs on a grand scale. They are NOT performing their mandate to protect public health under the Canadian Charter. PharmaPrint, Inc. of Irvine California announced the world's first patent on a complex herbal molecule just before Christmas. Date of Patent August 20,1996.