With Health Canada’s new guidelines set to be put in place soon, supplement users will see a rise in prices on supplements sold on shelves.
This price raise will hurt all users of health supplements but a group that will likely see the worst of it would be students that take their fitness seriously.
“I work out a lot so I’m taking supplements very often.”
“When I buy protein and creatine it already costs me north of $200” says AJ Mensah, a gym goer at Fanshawe College.
“I have a connection with someone who works at GNC and even with that it still costs a lot more than it should”, Mensah added.
One student was worried about balancing an already tight budget. He was also a gym goer and said that with prices going up he may not be able to buy supplements with his small budget.
In July of 2022 supplement manufacturers were given six years to update labels and expand on ingredient lists.
There is yet to be a timeline released for price increases.
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