The expiry date of our products is written besides the lot number on the label and is preceded by the letters EXP. According to our stability tests, our products preserve their efficacy and their quality until that date. If the expiry date has passed, the product does not suddenly become bad for your health. We are simply not able to guarantee the same efficacy as before the expiry date. Nonetheless, in general, our stability tests are showing that the freshness of the majority of our products is maintained up to about one year after this expiry date. For our meal replacement Nutriforme bars, they are safe to eat for about 6 months after the expiry date. However, the bars can become harder to chew and the chocolate may start to turn white. In any case, if you have questions about this topic, do not hesitate to contact our expert team at1-800-781-7723 or at info@santenaturelle.ca.

Yes! A.G. Natural Health has simply a brand new look!

All our product labels underwent a rejuvenating cure. Aiming at facilitating your life when choosing a product, we have reorganized our labels so it is now easier for you to find the product you need. We have classified our products under the following categories:

• Joint Health
  
• Brain Health
  
• Energy - Active
  
• Sleep & Stress
  
• Women’s Health
  
• Men’s Health
  
• Digestion
  
• Diet
  
• Immunity
  
• Heart Health
  
• Vitamins and Minerals
  
• General Health
  

Do not worry!

Only our labels have changed, but the product inside is still the same.

You will thus get the same quality and the same excellent products, but in a all new, attractive packaging, easier to understand.

To learn more about our products, visit:

http://www.agnaturalhealth.ca/ourproducts/AboutOurProducts/tabid/1469/Default.aspx

Indeed, we carry 2 slightly different cranberry products in the Women’s Health Category. The first product offers 270 mg of cranberries, under a 10 to 1 concentrate, meaning that each capsule brings the equivalent of 2,700 mg of fresh cranberries, in a bottle size of 100 capsules. Our second cranberry product is labelled as an «Extra Strength» and offers 250mg of cranberries, under a strong concentrate of 34 to 1, meaning that each capsule brings the equivalent of 8,500mg of fresh cranberries, in a bottle size of 100 capsules. Our regular 270mg cranberry product is thus recommended for the day-to-day prevention of urinary tract infections or as a general antioxidant, whereas our extra strength product can be used to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections, when the first symptoms of a urinary tract infection appear or shortly following a treatment for a urinary tract infection to avoid its recurrence.

Since 2004, Health Canada has established one of the most stringent regulations in the world around natural health products. Once Health Canada has evaluated the quality, the safety and the efficacy of a product, a Natural Product Number (NPN) is issued to the products that have successfully met all the requirements of Health Canada. So far, A.G. Adrien Gagnon has obtained almost every of its NPN. In fact, our products already met the strictest criteria, well before Health Canada’s regulations. Our products have always been synonym of quality and efficacy, and we keep on matching the highest industry standards.

The complete quality, safety and efficacy evaluation for each natural health product sold in Canada is a very long process for Health Canada. Therefore, during their evaluation, Health Canada allows products that are safe to be sold under an Exemption Number (EN), while waiting for their final NPN. That is why an NPN does not appear on every of our labels. Another reason for not finding an NPN on the label may simply be that the labels have not been updated with their NPN number. Thus, a seemingly non-NPN product (no NPN on the label) may well have received its NPN already from Health Canada, and this number will appear on the future product batches.

In Quebec, our products are mainly sold in pharmacies mass market stores. We also enjoy a great international distribution. To learn in which countries our products are available and for the distributor to contact, visit:

http://www.agnaturalhealth.ca/contactus/Export/tabid/1509/Default.aspx

By popular demand, we have added a uniform coating on our glucosamine tablets. Since the colour of glucosamine may vary depending on the available fishery, on the season of fishery or on the shrimp’s species, we have decided to standardized the appearance of our glucosamine tablets with the addition of a slight caramel coating. This strategy will ensure that in the future, our glucosamine products will always be of the same colour from one production batch to the next and you will not have to worry anymore about the colour variation between two glucosamine bottles.

The vast majority of our products do not contain gluten. When necessary, we prefer to use maltodextrin, a flour that comes from corn and which is thus gluten-free and totally safe for people with gluten intolerance. The products that contain or may contain gluten are:

1. our Nutriforme meal replacement bars, with the exception of the Peanut and Chocolate brownie flavours;
   
   
2. our Wheat Germ Oil;
   
   
3. our Brewer’s Yeast;
   
   
4. and our Magnesium 300mg in capsule, because it contains brewer’s yeast

If you have questions about other allergens, do not hesitate to contact us. We will be pleased to provide you with the information you need.

By phone, dial 1-800-781-7723, or by email at info@santenaturelle.ca

There is no risk to take glucosamine if you are diabetic, since glucosamine has no impact on blood glucose level. The « glucose» portion in glucosamine cannot be used as a glucose source in the body since the body cannot separate glucosamine in 2 different molecules (glucose and amine). The body must use glucosamine entirely without dividing it, it is then impossible for it to represent a source of glucose for the body. The important thing to known is that certain glucose meters (glucometers) react to glucosamine, thus falsifying the results but without affecting actual the blood sugar level. Thus, only the reading of the glucometer is false as it seems to give an elevated result, but your real level of blood glucose is in fact lower. Besides, Health Canada recognises the security of glucosamine for diabetic people.