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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: 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, Manager of Product Safety, email When looking to sell your consumer/retail product within Canada or the United States, it is important to note that although we share the same [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Recently I have seen many products being recalled for not having the appropriate symbols on their labels and not having test data for the [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Before you determine which country you want to sell your product to, there are a couple of questions you must ask yourself: “Where is my [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email On February 5, 2021, OSHA released a statement regarding the US Department of Labor’s OSHA issues proposed rule to update the hazard [...]

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 [...]

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) here in [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products Regulations (GHS, Seventh Revised Edition) were published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Order amending Schedule 2 to the Hazardous Products Act was published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on December 19, 2020. There are two [...]