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CHFA Launch Pad 2026 : deux finalistes québécois, et ni l’un...
Deux des huit finalistes du CHFA Launch Pad 2026 sont québécois : Laboratoire Abieze et Les Produits Mooz. Cinq finalistes vendent des aliments, deux des soins personnels, et une seule marque détient un numéro de produit naturel. IHR lit la sélection comme une carte de catégories et explique ce que le virage vers l'aliment et le cosmétique signifie pour les acheteurs québécois.
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Sport Certification Is Moving Into the Prenatal Aisle
A sport-doping certification just landed on prenatal vitamins. That move signals how the entire category will compete next—and which brand managers will be left...
Seaweed Enters the Prostate Aisle: What Fucoidan’s First BPH Trial Means for Retailers
The first human trial of purified fucoidan against BPH symptoms is positive and safe, but not yet a licensed Canadian claim. The independent retail read.
Company Profile
The Art and Science of Compounding Medicine
How Swan Lake Pharmacy is transforming pain care through compounding medicine
—by Toni-Marie Ippolito
“We’re trying to get people off of pain pill medication,” is not...
Off The Shelf
Increase the shelf life of your business—and prevent out-of-stocks—with Smart Shelf
BY CORRINA MOSCA
ABOUT NEWAVE SENSOR SOLUTIONS AND THE WAVE ANTENNA
As a leading provider of...
Figr Cannabis Products Now Available for Sale in Ontario
Figr Brands, Inc. (Figr), a vertically integrated legal cannabis company, announced its move into the Ontario market, offering three cannabis strains, including two that are brand new...
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Individualized Treatment for Optimal Benefit
In 1981, Kent McLeod, fresh out of the University of Toronto, worked for a major pharmacy chain. “I didn’t like it,” he says, without...
About IHR Magazine — Canada’s Natural Health Trade Magazine
IHR Magazine is Canada’s natural health trade magazine, serving the retailers, brand managers, buyers and manufacturers who drive the country’s natural health, supplement and nutraceutical market. We cover the business of natural health — the regulatory decisions from Health Canada that reshape what brands can claim, the merchandising strategies that turn shelf space into sales, and the deals, launches and appointments that signal where the category is heading next.
Written for the trade rather than the end consumer, IHR Magazine translates clinical research, NNHPD policy and market data into practical intelligence that independent health food stores, pharmacies and grocery buyers can act on. Our business news and health news coverage spans ingredient science and emerging categories, retail execution and store operations, and the competitive moves shaping Canada’s independent and banner retail landscape.
As Canada’s natural health trade magazine, our mission is simple: give the people who sell natural health products the intelligence they need to buy smarter, merchandise better and stay ahead of regulation. Learn how the IHR retailer network connects independent stores into a single fulfilment platform, or consult Health Canada’s Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate for the regulations behind the headlines.
