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By: Joanna Chudyk, Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email On November 24, 2022, Health Canada published an update to the Nutrition Labelling – Table of Reference Amounts for Food. Reference [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email To this day, I still see Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) that were written within the past couple of years referring to WHMIS 1988 [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Something that came to my attention today that I thought I’d share is that there are the Specific Rules for Symbols under the [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email As I indicated in a blog earlier this month, products for sale in Canada have different regulations that are applicable depending on [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When determining the label for your product in Canada, you first need to determine where you want to sell it. Do you want to sell your product [...]

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 When I send a Globally Harmonized System (GHS) Safety Data Sheet (SDS) draft to my clients, I often have questions surrounding the GHS Symbols [...]

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 [...]