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Consumer Compliancy: CCCR 2001 vs US CPSC. Let’s talk Flammability!

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Canadian Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001, contains the regulations that we must follow when classifying many non-registered products for the Canadian…

01 Feb

Concentration Ranges on a Canadian Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email One of the biggest non-compliances I continue to see when I receive supplier Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) is section 3 and the disclosure…

27 Jan

Hand Sanitizers and Stability Testing

By: Jacqui Jenskey, Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email Alcohol based Hand Sanitizer COVID 19 interim measures were removed by Health Canada in July 2020. This means that the once exempt…

25 Jan

Cyclical Enforcement Projects – What has Health Canada been targeting?

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Consumer Product Safety Program of Health Canada routinely performs planned national inspections which are referred to as Cyclical Enforcement (CE) Projects. As…

15 Jan

Bilingual Consumer Labeling- Where Does It Go?

By: Ivy Tang, Product Safety Specialist, email Per the Consumer Packaging and Labeling Act and Regulations, all mandatory information on the label of a prepackaged product must be shown in both…

12 Jan

Disinfecting/Sanitizing Devices and Regulatory Requirements

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many new and innovative products such as Ultraviolet (UV) light decontamination, Ozone generators, Electrolyzed…

06 Jan

California Prop 65 List Update

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The California Prop 65 list was updated in late December. It was only updated twice in 2020. Should you be using these chemicals…

06 Jan

GHS Moving to Version 7 in Canada – What can we expect?

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Earlier this month, Health Canada advised that we will be moving from Version 5 to Version 7 of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS)…

14 Dec

California Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2020 (SB312)

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email On September 30, 2020, the California Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2020 was signed into…

10 Dec

Notice of Intent to Remove 22 Organisms from the Domestic Substances List (DSL)

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email On December 5, 2020, the Depart Of The Environment issued a Notice of Intent to remove 22 living organisms from…

08 Dec

What is WHMIS?

By: Kim Samela, Client Services Coordinator SDS, GHS, HAZMAT, WHMIS 2015. The regulatory world is full of acronyms and WHMIS is probably one of the most misspelled ones out there.…

08 Dec

WHMIS – How many symbols do I really need?

By: Sarah D'Mello B.SC.,SENIOR PRODUCT SAFETY SPECIALIST The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System or WHMIS, is Canada's hazard communication standard for classifying chemicals and communicating their potential hazards and is…

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