“.....ACTIONS of the privacy commissioner in Ontario have limited access to documentation regarding all matters of the former cancer commission (set up in 1938 in the province of Ontario) and the Rene M. Caisse files within the Health Department holdings in the Achieves of Ontario, Canada.
Files that had been previously searched various times before are no longer open, and the quantity of documents in the record boxes seems reduced for reasons not given. Similar restrictions have been placed on documents in Canada’s National Archives by the Federal Privacy Commissioner.”
Donna M. Ivey:
Clinic of Hope – The Story of RENE M. CAISSE and ESSIAC,
page 23.
As of January 1, 2004, the law in Canada, (and subsequently in the United States as of May, 2007), the natural health industry regulation is as follows:
Even though Essiac is used by many people world-wide, today under government regulations by the Health Protection Board of Canada (HPB) all natural health care products including Essiac are not to be "manufactured, sold, or represented for use: (i) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder, or abnormal physical state or it's symptom in humans; (ii) restoring or correcting organic functions in humans; or (iii) maintaining or promoting health or otherwise modifying organic functions in humans."
—This is the law.
TRANSLATION – All natural health products must not be advertised or sold to the public to be used to improve or correct health. Essiac is legally registered with Health Canada as a natural health product and is registered with the USA FDA as a food supplement.
