Canada OKs tougher product safety law

The Canadian Parliament has passed the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act to give the country’s product safety regulators broader authority to enforce safety rules and recall consumer products.

Specifically, the new law:

  • prohibits the manufacture, importation, advertisement or sale of any consumer products that pose an unreasonable danger to human health or safety
  • requires industry to report to regulators serious incidents or deaths related to their products and to provide timely information about important product safety issues
  • requires manufacturers and importers to provide test or study results for products when asked
  • authorizes Health Canada to recall dangerous consumer products
  • raises fines and penalties for noncompliance.

For more information, check the Health Canada website, www.hc–sc.gc.ca. On the site, you also can sign up for email updates about the new law.

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