What does HPFB stand for?

Health Canada, Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate, "Guidance on the Medical Device Inspection Programme," 4, Feb.

Ottawa, ON: Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, 2007, Cat.

Canada, Health Products and Food Branch, Consumer Advertising Guidelines for Marketed Health Products (For Nonprescription Drugs Including Natural Health Products) (Ottawa: Health Canada, 2006) at 68.

Helen Tryphonas, (1) George Arvanitakis, (2) Elizabeth Vavasour, (1) and Genevieve Bondy (1) (1) Health Products and Food Branch, and (2) Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Address correspondence to H.

AMRI (NASDAQ: AMRI) announced today it will receive a $4 million milestone payment from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) as a result of Bristol-Myers Squibb's submission of a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to the Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB), Health Canada for approval to initiate Phase I studies on an AMRI compound exclusively licensed to Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Therefore, it should not be too surprising that new food products as well as pharmaceutical drugs and devices are principally governed by a single statute, the Food and Drugs Act, (23) and fall largely within the jurisdiction of the same agency within Health Canada, the Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB).

1(2)) allow the Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB) of Health Canada to adopt a pre-market requirement that the names of drugs not be confusing with one another.

John Jake Ryan, (1) Zarema Arnirova, (2) and Gaetan Carrier (3) (1) Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada; (2) Environmental Protection Centre of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia; (3) Departement de Sante environnmentale et sante au travail, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Address correspondence to J.