Reply To: Herbal Business
Hi Maria,
This is from a few posts above: It certainly can feel overwhelming to make internal herbal preparations for sale legally when you start looking into it, but really there are only a few items to utilise that are the basic back bone of doing it legally on a small scale.
The main thing to keep in mind is not to make any health claims on your labels or packaging. E.g. Elderberry Syrup- will keep you healthy through cold and flu season.’ Similarly you cannot make the health claim through the name e.g. ‘Cough Syrup’, without going through the process of getting an NNHP number.
You can put the name of the product e.g. ‘Elderberry Oxymel’ or ‘Hearts Delight Oxymel’ and ingredients on the bottle and discuss it’s traditional use with the customer directly at the farmers market as a ‘herbal educator’ or you can write about the product in more general terms, using something like ‘traditionally used for…’ or ‘may be of use’ or ‘can be of use’ etc. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to avoid making any statement.
Seraphina reviews these ideas in the Herbal products section of the Herbal Business course, including some ideas on how one could word labeling.Have you watched and read this course yet?
The other thing to keep in mind is that you are best off selling directly to customers (farm or craft market or online) this means that you are the retailer and/or the educator, rather than the product being a standalone item on a store shelf.
Here is the link for more information directly from the Natural Health Product Regulation page:https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2003-196/page-7.html#h-701139
There are a couple of other posts and answers on this page that discuss labeling that you can refer to. If you would like further clarification or if you have a question about a specific product or labeling I will do my best to help you with this!
All the best,
Benna