Product Safety

By: Ivy Tang, Product Safety Specialist, email Child Resistant (CR) packaging is used to reduce the risk of children opening and experiencing exposure to a hazardous product. However, the [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Safety Data Sheets are a crucial component for health and safety in a workplace.  Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are formerly known as Material [...]

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email For Consumer Products such as Laundry detergents, Dish detergents, Household cleaners, Air Fresheners & [...]

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 a [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The most frequently asked question in my field is what is the GHS and what does it stand for? The GHS refers to the Globally Harmonized System [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email With the change in regulations from WHMIS 1988 to WHMIS 2015, the word ‘Pictogram’ is being used rather than ‘Symbol’.  Although the word [...]

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 a [...]

By: Ivy Tang, Product Safety Specialist, email The Vaping Products Promotion Regulations (VPPR), published in the Canada Gazette Part II on June 26th, were introduced to mitigate the impact of [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When Covid first started, Transport Canada provided some temporary certificates to help facilitate the transport of dangerous chemicals [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When we are working on a Consumer/Retail report for our clients, one of the questions we sometimes ask is to see a picture of the label and [...]