# Canada Natural Health Products (NPN Licence Database) (`loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products`) Actor

Search Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database: NPN/DIN-HM, brand names, licence holder, dosage form, licence date, medicinal ingredients with amounts, recommended uses, doses and warnings. Filter by keyword, company, NPN and date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products.md
- **Developed by:** [Keegan Carpentier](https://apify.com/loonieledger) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Canada Natural Health Products (NPN) Scraper – Licensed Natural Health Products Database

Search Health Canada's **Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD)** – every vitamin, supplement, herbal, probiotic, homeopathic and other natural health product licensed for sale in Canada – and export clean JSON, CSV or Excel: **NPN / DIN-HM**, brand and alternate names, licence holder, dosage form, licence date, status, **medicinal ingredients with amounts and source material**, non-medicinal ingredients, **approved recommended uses (claims)**, routes, doses and risk statements. Look up NPNs in bulk or schedule a **"new licences only"** monitor.

- ✅ Official Health Canada LNHPD API (about 150,000 licences). No scraping, no login, no API key
- ✅ One row per licence with every brand name grouped, then enriched with ingredients, claims, doses and warnings
- ✅ **Bulk NPN verification**: paste a list of NPNs and get status, holder and approved claims back
- ✅ `onlyNew` monitoring mode for new or revised licences; English **or French**; pay only for the results you get

### Who it's for

- **Amazon, Shopify and retail sellers and marketplaces** that must check a supplement's NPN before listing it in Canada
- **Supplement brands, importers and contract manufacturers** tracking competitors' new licences and approved claims
- **Regulatory consultants and compliance teams** verifying claims and licence status
- **Market researchers and product developers** mapping ingredients and dosage trends

### Input

| Field | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| `language` | `en` or `fr` | `en` |
| `keywords` | Brand name (primary or alternate) contains **any** of these | `["melatonin"]` (prefill) |
| `licenceNumbers` | Specific 8-digit NPNs / DIN-HMs to look up | – |
| `companies` | Licence holder contains any of these | all |
| `dosageForms` | e.g. `Capsule`, `Tablet`, `Gummy`, `Powder` | all |
| `submissionTypes` | `Compendial`, `Traditional`, `Non-Traditional`, `Homeopathic` | all |
| `activeOnly` | Skip non-active licences | on |
| `licensedWithinDays` / `licensedSince` | Window on the licence date | no limit |
| `includeIngredients` | Medicinal + non-medicinal ingredients | on |
| `includeUsesAndRoutes` | Recommended uses (claims) + routes | on |
| `includeDosesAndRisks` | Doses by population + cautions, contraindications, adverse reactions | off |
| `onlyNew` | Only new or revised licences since the last run | off |
| `maxItems` | Hard cap on results (and on cost), newest licence first | 100 |

Example: verify a supplier's products

```json
{ "licenceNumbers": ["80151267", "80000012"], "activeOnly": false, "includeDosesAndRisks": true }
```

### Output

One row per product licence. A real record from a live test (29 Sep 2026, lists shortened):

```json
{
  "lnhpdId": 30253743,
  "licenceNumber": "80151267",
  "productName": "Melatonin",
  "alternateNames": [
    "nutricost Melatonin",
    "NutriCost Melatonin",
    "NutriCost",
    "…"
  ],
  "companyName": "eSupplements, LLC",
  "companyId": 67616,
  "dosageForm": "Tablet",
  "licenceDate": "2026-09-25",
  "revisedDate": null,
  "submissionType": "Compendial",
  "productStatus": "Active",
  "productStatusCode": 1,
  "attestedMonograph": false,
  "medicinalIngredients": [
    {
      "name": "N-Acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine",
      "sourceMaterial": "Melatonin",
      "quantity": 5.0,
      "quantityMin": null,
      "quantityMax": null,
      "unit": "mg",
      "potencyAmount": null,
      "potencyConstituent": null,
      "potencyUnit": null,
      "ratio": null,
      "driedHerbEquivalent": null,
      "dheUnit": null,
      "extractType": null
    }
  ],
  "nonMedicinalIngredients": [
    "Calcium carbonate",
    "Corn starch",
    "Dextrin",
    "…"
  ],
  "recommendedUses": [
    "(Used as a) sleep aid (to help promote sleep).  Helps (to) prevent and/or reduce the effects of jet lag/minimize jet lag (e.g. daytime fatigue, sleep …"
  ],
  "routes": [
    "Oral"
  ],
  "doses": [
    {
      "population": "Adults",
      "age": null,
      "ageMin": 18.0,
      "ageMax": null,
      "ageUnit": "Years",
      "quantity": 1.0,
      "quantityMin": null,
      "quantityMax": null,
      "quantityUnit": "tablet",
      "frequency": 1.0,
      "frequencyMin": null,
      "frequencyMax": null,
      "frequencyUnit": "daily"
    }
  ],
  "riskStatements": [
    {
      "type": "Known Adverse Reactions",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Stop use if allergy occurs or if you experience headache, confusion, or nausea."
    },
    {
      "type": "Cautions and Warnings",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Ask a health care practitioner/health care provider/health care professional/doctor/physician before use if you are taking medications for seizure, blood …"
    },
    {
      "type": "Contra-Indications",
      "subType": null,
      "text": "Do not use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://health-products.canada.ca/lnhpd-bdpsnh/info?lang=eng&licence=80151267",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "Health Canada – Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD) API",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T22:52:12+00:00"
}
```

More real rows are in `sample_output.json`.

### Pricing

**Pay per result.** You're charged once per licence written to the dataset, whatever enrichment you switch on.

### Data source, licence and privacy

- Source: Health Canada **LNHPD API** – https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/lnhpd-documentation-en.html (dataset: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ef546c83-43a8-4404-943e-ab324164eeb3). Each row links to the official LNHPD record.
- Licence: **Open Government Licence – Canada**. Every row carries the required attribution statement.
- Licence holders are companies. **No personal information** is output.
- Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Health Canada. A licence doesn't mean a product is currently on the market.

### Limits and notes

- Each run downloads the full licence list (about 15 MB compressed, a few seconds), then makes 2–6 small API calls per returned licence for the enrichment you choose. Large runs with all enrichment on take roughly 1 minute per 500 licences.
- `productStatus` is "Active" or "Non-active"; a few rows carry other source status codes, shown as "Other (code N)".
- The French list is sometimes slow to respond (up to about a minute).

# Actor input Schema

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language of dosage forms, uses, routes and risk statements.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep licences whose brand name (primary or alternate) contains ANY of these words, e.g. melatonin, probiotic, collagen.

## `licenceNumbers` (type: `array`):

Look up specific 8-digit NPNs or DIN-HMs (e.g. to verify a supplier's products). Leave empty to search.

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Company name contains any of these, e.g. Jamieson, Webber, Natural Factors.

## `dosageForms` (type: `array`):

Dosage form contains any of these, e.g. Capsule, Tablet, Powder, Gummy, Liquid.

## `submissionTypes` (type: `array`):

Contains any of: Compendial, Traditional, Non-Traditional, Homeopathic.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Skip licences whose product status is not active.

## `licensedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Only licences issued within this many days (by licence date). 0 = no limit. Ignored if 'Licensed on or after' is set.

## `licensedSince` (type: `string`):

Only licences issued on or after this date.

## `includeIngredients` (type: `boolean`):

Adds medicinal ingredients (amount, unit, potency, source material, extract) and non-medicinal ingredients. One extra API call per licence.

## `includeUsesAndRoutes` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the approved recommended uses (health claims) and routes of administration.

## `includeDosesAndRisks` (type: `boolean`):

Adds dosing by population and the cautions, warnings, contraindications and known adverse reactions.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers returned licences in the named key-value store 'canada-nhp-state'; next runs return only new licences or licences with a new revised date.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many licences (newest licence date first). Controls cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "language": "en",
  "keywords": [
    "melatonin"
  ],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "licensedWithinDays": 0,
  "includeIngredients": true,
  "includeUsesAndRoutes": true,
  "includeDosesAndRisks": false,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Natural health product licences written to the default dataset

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "melatonin"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": ["melatonin"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "melatonin"
  ]
}' |
apify call loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loonieledger/canada-natural-health-products"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HA3AV932NhXL78vT5/builds/9OZ79mQV93O8sTt8L/openapi.json