Compliance Verification Project 2021-2022: Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001

Consumer Product Enforcement Summary Report

Fiscal Year 2021-2022

Summary

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

The purpose of this Compliance Verification (CV) project was to verify industry's compliance of consumer chemical products 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 and documents requested from establishments by Health Canada inspectors. Some of these products were sampled and sent to the Product Safety Laboratory to have relevant regulatory criteria verified through laboratory testing.

Prior to initiating inspections, the CPSP carried out a market survey to determine the presence of consumer chemicals and establishments in Canada. Targets were then selected from that list of companies.

Over the course of the 2021 to 2022 fiscal year, flammability, corrosivity, viscosity and pH testing, as well as a visual evaluation of 50 different product labels was carried out. The compliance verification inspections resulted in 4 recalls, 9 stop distributions and 12 commitments to address non-compliance. There were 25 instances in which no corrective action was required.

Results

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

 Disclaimer: Inspectors apply a systematic bias during the selection of establishments and samples. Inspectors do not select products randomly; instead, they select the ones that are more likely not to meet health and safety requirements due to observed characteristics. Due to this biased nature of sampling and the fact that sample sizes within CV projects are very small, Health Canada does not consider the findings of CV projects 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 measured in this project. Testing by Health Canada does not represent approval or endorsement of the product(s).

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