Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Report - Cyclical Enforcement Project 2018-2019: Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001

Fiscal Year 2018-2019

Summary

The Consumer Product Safety Program (CPSP) administers and enforces the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) and its regulations.   

The purpose of this Cyclical Enforcement (CE) project was to verify industry's compliance of consumer chemicals with the requirements of the Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001 (CCCR, 2001).

For this project, compliance of select consumer chemicals with the CCCR, 2001 was determined through a review of classification documents requested from establishments by Health Canada inspectors. As part of the product inspection, a selection of chemicals were sampled and sent to the Product Safety Laboratory to have relevant regulatory criteria verified through laboratory testing.

Prior to initiating this CE project, the CPSP carried out a market survey to determine the presence of consumer chemical companies in Canada. Some targets were then selected from that list of companies. 

Over the course of the 2018-2019 fiscal year, flammability, viscosity and pH testing, as well as visual evaluation of 86 different product labels was carried out. The compliance verification inspections resulted in 13 recalls, 3 stop sales, 12 stop distributions, 6 corrections and 10 commitments to address non-compliance. There were 22 instances where no corrective action was required and 20 instances where the products were determined not to meet the definition of a chemical product under the CCCR, 2001 Regulations.

Results

Readers should consult the individual recall and safety notices, if applicable, for details of the products subject to this enforcement action.

Disclaimer: A systematic bias is applied during inspection and sampling. Products are not randomly selected but are chosen because they are deemed by the inspector to be more likely to not meet health and safety requirements due to characteristics that are observed.  Due to this biased nature of sampling and the fact that sample sizes within CE projects are very small, the findings of CE projects are not intended to reflect overall market compliance unless otherwise stated. Note that these summary reports relate only to the product(s) actually tested and the specific criteria indicated. Testing by Health Canada does not represent approval or endorsement of the product(s).

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