Product Safety

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Last year I wrote a blog advising that there is a new regulation coming down the line in California regarding an additional phrase [...]