New active substances approved by Health Canada 2014-2020

In 2020, 29 prescription pharmaceutical new active substances and 11 biologic new active substances were approved by Health Canada. This statistic depicts the number of new active substances (NASs) approved by Health Canada from 2014 to 2020.

Number of new active substances (NASs) approved by Health Canada from 2014 to 2020

Characteristic	Prescription pharmaceutical	Biologic
2014	18	9
2015	23	15
2016	27	11
2017	21	15
2018	25	15
2019	25	10
2020	29	11

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2023

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Canada

Survey time period

2014 to 2020

Supplementary notes

“Prescription pharmaceutical” and “biologic” are terms used to define product types when submitting a Notice of Compliance (NOC) to Health Canada.

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