Natural health products consultation
Overview
In September 2026, the Government agreed to engage on the objectives, principles and core elements of a regulatory system for natural health products.
The Ministry of Health is now seeking feedback on the design of a future regulatory system for natural health products. No decisions have been made on the final design of the system, and your feedback will help inform future policy advice and decisions.
Before completing the questionnaire, we encourage you to read the following materials:
- Consultation document: Purpose, principles and elements of a natural health products regulatory system (PDF, 295 KB), (Word, 257 KB)
- Cabinet paper: Consulting on a Natural Health Products Regulatory System
- Question and Answers
Not all questions in the survey are compulsory. Please note: that the Ministry may use Microsoft CoPilot to assist with the summary and analysis of submissions.
Publishing submissions and the Official Information Act
Publishing submissions
We may publish the submissions from this consultation, but we will only publish your submission if you give permission. We will remove personal details such as contact details and the names of individuals. You will be asked about this in the questions in the survey.
Official Information Act responses
Your submission will be subject to requests made under the Official Information Act (even if it hasn’t been published). You can tell us if you want to have your personal details removed from any Official Information Act responses. You will be asked about this in the questions in the survey.
Commercially sensitive information
We will redact commercially sensitive information before publishing submissions or releasing them under the Official Information Act. Please indicate in your submission where commercially sensitive information is present.
Audiences
- Health sector
- Members of the public
- Natural health products industry
Interests
- Natural health products
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