Outdated regulation crippling export opportunity for natural health products
16 Mar, 2021 04:32 AM
4 minutes to read
Natural health products contribute $2.3 billion to the New Zealand economy each year. Photo / Getty Images
Natural health products contribute $2.3 billion to the New Zealand economy each year. Photo / Getty Images
Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw
An organisation representing natural health product manufacturers says outdated regulation is costing Kiwi businesses millions of dollars worth of export deals. Natural Health Products NZ is calling for the Government to introduce modern legislation to govern the industry to support trade and economic development.
The vitamin boom: Do supplements really work?
14 minutes to read
By: Donna Chisholm
New Zealanders increasingly turn to supplements for protection against everything from colds to Covid. But do our laws deny us access to products that may actually help us? Donna Chisholm reports. Nowhere are New Zealanders conflicted attitudes to vitamin supplements better illustrated than in the Dunedin home of Dr Lisa Houghton, a professor of nutrition at the University of Otago, and her accountant husband Brett Dailey.
Ask Houghton whether it s a good idea to take multivitamins and she ll tell you the people who need them least are those who take them most; that we get the critical nutrients we need from our food. Apart from taking iron when she was younger, she doesn t use them. Then she laughs and adds, But my husband loves them. Dailey, she says, has given each of their three daughters, now in their teens and early twenties, a multivitamin tablet each day since they w
Press Release – Natural Health Products The body representing New Zealands natural health industry has told a Select Committee that it only supports the proposed legislation because there is no other choice. Natural Health Products NZ conveyed its frustrations during its oral submission …
The body representing New Zealand’s natural health industry has told a Select Committee that it only supports the proposed legislation because there is no other choice.
Natural Health Products NZ conveyed its frustrations during its oral submission to the Primary Production Committee regarding the Natural Health Products Food (Continuation of Dietary Supplements Regulations) Amendment Bill.
Natural Health Products NZ is a national industry organisation representing this country’s natural health products, functional foods, complementary medicines, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals industries. With over 140 members, Natural Health Products NZ represents around 85% of the sector. Members i
Thursday, 17 December, 2020 - 11:12
The body representing New Zealand’s natural health industry has told a Select Committee that it only supports the proposed legislation because there is no other choice.
Natural Health Products NZ conveyed its frustrations during its oral submission to the Primary Production Committee regarding the Natural Health Products Food (Continuation of Dietary Supplements Regulations) Amendment Bill.
Natural Health Products NZ is a national industry organisation representing this country’s natural health products, functional foods, complementary medicines, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals industries. With over 140 members, Natural Health Products NZ represents around 85% of the sector. Members include product manufacturers, suppliers, and branded goods companies.
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 11:08 am
The body representing New Zealand’s natural
health industry has told a Select Committee that it only
supports the proposed legislation because there is no other
choice.
Natural Health Products NZ conveyed
its frustrations during its oral submission to the Primary
Production Committee regarding the Natural Health Products
Food (Continuation of Dietary Supplements Regulations)
Amendment Bill.
Natural Health Products NZ is a
national industry organisation representing this country’s
natural health products, functional foods, complementary
medicines, cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals industries.
With over 140 members, Natural Health Products NZ represents
around 85% of the sector. Members include product
manufacturers, suppliers, and branded goods