
Consumer Products in Canada – What you might not be aware of…
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email When selling a consumer product in Canada there are many factors to consider. Who is your market? Are you making any claims? Have [...]

US EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention: Webinar on Reducing Vertebrate Animal Testing
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is partnering with the PETA Science Consortium International and the Physicians for [...]

Exposure Levels for 1-Bromopropane Under Review
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email More news last week from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). In an email, they have advised that [...]

CCCR 2001 – Child-Resistant Container Requirements and Corrosive Classifications
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email The Canadian Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001 (CCCR, 2001) contains some of the regulations that we must follow [...]

Proposition 65: 15-Day Modification for Proposed Amendment: Clear and Reasonable Warnings
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has advised us by email that they have modified the text of the [...]

Where to Find Recalls and Safety Alerts
By: Teah Jazey, Regulatory Affairs and Product Safety Associate, email If you’re looking for a website that has reliable data on current recalls and safety alerts look no further than the Recalls [...]

Potential Changes to Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR) to Add Chemicals Under Pressure
By: Teah Jazey, Regulatory Affairs and Product Safety Associate, email In December 2020, Health Canada’s proposed amendments to the HPR to align with the United Nations Globally Harmonized System [...]

National Consultations on Supply Chain Transparency, Including Labeling
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Earlier this month, the Government of Canada launched national consultations on mandatory labeling for chemicals in consumer [...]

Leak Test Requirement for CCCR Regulated Products
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email The requirement to have a leakage test done is not new to the CCCR regulations but we are finding it is very much overlooked. Just [...]