Nexreg releases regulatory news educating organizations on the changes in regulations, and how to keep their industrial and consumer products compliant.
Canada Gazette I – Vol. 140, No. 24 — June 17, 2006 1. Section 4 of the Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2005 is renumbered as subsection 4(1) and is amended by adding the following: (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a product that is a manufactured item that is formed into a […]
Canada Gazette II – Vol. 140, No. 13 — June 28, 2006 1. (1) Part 1 of the Domestic Substances List is amended by deleting the following: 68784-55-4 T (2) Part 1 of the List is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 38639-64-4 N-P68908-97-4 N 84776-83-0 N 111940-18-2 N-P 126213-32-9 N-P 133842-99-6 N-P158061-44-0 […]
CANADA GAZETTE II – Vol. 140, No. 13 — June 28, 2006 1. Part 1 of the Domestic Substances List is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 9062-90-2 39317-41-4 426260-76-6 2. Part 5 of the List is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “Organisms/ Organismes“: Aspergillus awamori ATCC […]
Canadian Occupational Health & Safety News discusses a recent ruling about the need to make paper copies of MSDSs available to workers in Ontario: An Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) panel has suspended an inspector’s order that a company ensure “readily accessible” hard copies of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) be available to employees until […]
More on the potential ban of 2,4-D in Canada: The department’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency is expected to issue a final ruling on the safety of the herbicide, which is used to kill dandelions and other broadleaved plants, in early 2007. It issued a preliminary assessment indicating it favoured continued use of the product in […]
Not everyone is happy with changes in drug labeling put into place by the FDA: Experts say the new labeling system for prescription drugs about to launch in the United States will not radically improve patient safety or the prescribing process. What’s more, the new rules include a clause, slipped in silently after the public-comment […]
Some new food regulations may be coming into place in Chicago: If the City Council can ban foie gras, a fatty liver delicacy that most Chicagoans have never tasted and cannot afford, why not ban a product that’s known to cause obesity and heart disease? Chicago’s most powerful alderman raised that question Wednesday, then began […]
A press release from the OEHHA: The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding a chemical to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 651). The chemical is […]
An article at FoodConsumer.org discusses labeling of cough medicines: Carbinoxamine containing cough medicines and many other types on the market have been unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration. Some can pose serious health risks, particularly to young children. Because of this, the agency on Thursday launched a campaign to stop these unapproved drug makers. […]
Time magazine has a rather alarmist article about labels on consumer chemicals: But where were the ingredients? There were scary words on the labels–WARNING and DANGER! KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN–and some nasty things I recognized (bleach, ammonia, the generic word disinfectant). With cereal boxes detailing everything from trans fats to soluble fiber, I […]
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