Product Safety

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The amendments to the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act (HMIRA) received Royal Assent on June 21, 2019, and came into force on March [...]

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 Prefilled vaping pods, blister packaging, and starter kits all fall under the Vaping Products Labelling and Packaging Regulations. If you are [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Many companies have purchased their own in-house software for preparation of SDSs but what about your raw materials? Most systems that are [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Training. Where do you obtain it? What if you have something so specific that training is simply not available?  There are plenty of free [...]

By: Ivy Tang, Product Safety Specialist, email In May 2019, five MDIs (methylene diphenyl diisocyanates) were added to Schedule 1 of the List of Toxic Substances of the Canadian Environmental [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Last year at the Society for Chemical Hazard Classification (SCHC) conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde of Health [...]

By: Ivy Tang, Product Safety Specialist, email Under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA), it is prohibited to manufacture, import, or sell a consumer product that is dangerous to human [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) regulations came into effect in Canada, the three year renewal period was abolished FEDERALLY. As I [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Health Canada’s Consumer Product Safety Program have published their latest Quarterly Consumer Product and Cosmetic Reports with data [...]