Why is it necessary for Empowerplus to be regulated as a drug, if the ingredients are “natural”?
A. Being “natural”, does not preclude an ingredient from being a drug. Products are drugs because of their representations, their ingredients and their recommended conditions of use. If a product is being sold and represented to treat, mitigate or prevent a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, then it is a “drug” as defined in the Food and Drugs Act. Empowerplus contains vitamins and minerals which in themselves are drugs in dosage form. It also contains other ingredients such as phenylalanine, boron, germanium and folic acid which are regulated as drugs in Canada.
