HMIRA Receives Royal Assent
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 [...]
Substances of Special Concern
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 [...]
Trade Secret Applications for Canada
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR) dictates what information must be available on a SDS within each prescribed section. The SDS is [...]
Are You in Violation of the Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR)? Is Your Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Compliant?
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 [...]
Consequences to Offering Misbranded Consumer Products Within the US
By: Dana Mladin, Sr. Laboratory Technician & Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email It is the obligation of the manufacturer/distributor of a product to ensure that that product’s label [...]
Technical Translation Service
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Technical translation is the transcription of scientific text from one language to another with close attention paid to both specialized [...]
Hazardous Substance Assessments – What are they and how do they impact Canadian Classifications?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email At the SCHC conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde of Health Canada gave an update of where GHS stands in Canada. With [...]
Modernization of the HMIRA
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Two weeks ago at the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde gave an [...]
GHS in Canada. What is going on?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Last week at the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde gave an update [...]
There’s More to Transportation Than Just Classification
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The classification of your product is a very important step in transporting your product safely within our Canadian borders. It is important [...]
