Skip to content

Brought to you by

Dentons logo

Canada Regulatory Review

The latest information and developments on regulatory law across Canada.

open menu close menu

Canada Regulatory Review

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Dentons COVID-19 hub

Regulated health products in 2021: Post-COVID enforcement trends in Canada

By Monica Song and Yulia Konarski
April 27, 2021
  • COVID-19
  • Health
  • Product regulation
  • Public Policy and Regulation
  • Regulatory
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on LinkedIn

With the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine in Canada at the close of 2020 and with large-scale vaccination programs underway, in 2021, Canada transitions to a post COVID-19 reality.

In 2020, activity in the regulated health product sphere was largely focussed on ensuring that products necessary to combat COVID-19 were available in Canada as quickly as possible. At the start of the pandemic Health Canada issued a number of interim orders to facilitate the rapid coming to market of new and existing drugs, natural health products and medical devices. These interim measures relaxed regulatory requirements allowing certain non-compliant products to be marketed in Canada (for example, those with a foreign product approval number rather than a Canadian product approval number).

In parallel, Canadians were flooded with messages encouraging individuals to sanitize their personal environments. This translated into a marketing opportunity for many businesses to supply products necessary to meet the demand, including hand sanitizers, disinfectant cleaners, face masks etc. For many businesses, this meant branching into new lines of business (distilleries manufacturing hand sanitizer is an example that comes to mind).

Taken together, 2020 saw an unprecedented volume of new health products (and general consumer products making health claims) coming to market in Canada from both old and new players in the arena.

Read the complete article here.

This piece was originally published on dentons.com

To read other articles in the Dentons’ Pick of Canadian Regulatory Trends to Watch in 2021 series, click here.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on LinkedIn
Subscribe and stay updated
Receive our latest blog posts by email.
Stay in Touch
Monica Song

About Monica Song

Monica Song leads the Communications Law group of Dentons Canada LLP. A skilled administrative lawyer with in-depth knowledge of the business, legal, regulatory, licensing, and public policy issues affecting the communications industry, she has over 20 years’ experience advising clients in the sector, including wireline and wireless carriers, resellers, satellite operators, cable companies, Internet service providers, cloud-based application service providers, digital media undertakings, content providers, and equipment manufacturers and distributors. She also oversees the provision of tailored commercial, access to information, lawful access, lobbying, privacy, marketing and advertising, copyright and transactional advisory services to clients in the sector.

All posts Full bio

Yulia Konarski

About Yulia Konarski

Yulia Konarski is an associate in our Regulatory group with a practice that focuses on regulated products under the Food and Drugs Act, including food, drugs, natural health products, cosmetics and medical devices. Yulia regularly advises clients about their obligations in relation to importing and selling these products into Canada.

All posts Full bio

RELATED POSTS

  • COVID-19
  • Financial
  • Tax

Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan

By Larry Nevsky and Mark Woltersdorf | March 23, 2020
  • Privacy
  • Privacy and Cybersecurity
  • Public Policy and Regulation
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory
  • Smart Cities
  • Transportation

1st Annual Canadian Smart Cities Virtual Summit

By Katarzyna Sliwa | October 26, 2020
  • Administrative Law
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Public Policy and Regulation
  • Regulatory

Reference re Impact Assessment Act: Canada’s Federal Impact Assessment Regime held to be Unconstitutional by the Alberta Court of Appeal

By Dina Awad and Kate Wiltse | May 25, 2022

About Dentons

Dentons is designed to be different. As the world’s largest law firm with 20,000 professionals in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries, we can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your business. Our polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures we challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Dentons boilerplate image

Twitter

Categories

  • Aboriginal
  • Administrative Law
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Aviation
  • Broadcasting
  • Cannabis
  • Class Action Defense
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Communications
  • Competition
  • Consumer Products
  • COVID-19
  • Data
  • Drones
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • ESG
  • Event
  • Expropriation
  • Financial
  • FinTech
  • Foreign Investment Review
  • Franchising and Distribution
  • Global Mobility
  • Government Affairs
  • Government Investigations
  • Health
  • Immigration
  • International Trade
  • Judicial Review
  • Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Marketing/Advertising
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mining
  • Modern Slavery
  • Municipal
  • National Security
  • Privacy
  • Privacy and Cybersecurity
  • Product regulation
  • Professional Liability
  • Public Policy and Regulation
  • Public Procurement
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory
  • Russia
  • Sanctions
  • Securities
  • Smart Cities
  • Supply chain
  • Tax
  • Technology
  • Technology, Media and Communications
  • Trade and Economic Sanctions
  • Trade, WTO and Customs
  • Transportation
  • Ukraine/Russia
  • White Collar Crime
Dentons logo

© 2023 Dentons

  • Legal notices
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of use
  • Cookies on this site