NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCT INDUSTRY SEEKS CHANGE AS REGULATORY LANDSCAPE SHIFTS
The complementary medicine regulations of 2017 have fallen and became legally unenforceable on April 11. The twelve-month suspension of invalidity ordered by the Supreme Court of Appeal in its judgment in April 2022 has expired without any lawfully gazetted amendments extending or validating them. This came after a unanimous five-member bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) ruled on April 11, 2022 that the regulations for complementary medicines were defective and ultra vires [beyond the scope of power... Read More