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REGULATORY NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 22, 2022
A recent health product recall underscores the need for importers and manufacturers to ensure that products meet specification and provides the required risk information. Conducting adequate due diligence would have prevented this recall which can impact a brands reputation and profitability. As reported by Food Safety News, the UK is urging testing of soy product from India because of peanut risk. Does your supplier quality management program have adequate oversight to avoid preventable recalls, such as pre-shipment testing? Spotted lanternfly has just been detected in northern NY, close to the Ontario border. Lanternflies are an aggressive pest impacting the grape and tender fruit tree industry in the US. From Aug. 21-27, commercial motor vehicle inspectors in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will be conducting their usual North American Standard Level I and IV Inspections; however, in addition, they will be documenting brake-related out-of-service violations and brake hose/tube chafing violations and will submit that data to CVSA. The results will be released later this year. On August 23, 2022, new import requirements for raw fresh/frozen poultry products and by-products from the United Kingdom (UK) will come into effect. The Government of Canada would like to remind you that the deadline for responding to the Notice with respect to certain substances on the Revised In Commerce List, including biopolymers, plant extracts, mineral extracts, proteins, fats, animal extracts, waxes, and carbohydrates, published on March 12, 2022 in the Canada Gazette, Part I, is September 14, 2022. The Order amending the Domestic Substances List (DSL) to apply the Significant New Activity (SNAc) provisions of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) to hexanoic acid, 2-ethyl-, calcium salt, also known as calcium 2-ethylhexanoate (Chemical Abstract Registry Number 136-51-6) was published in the Canada Gazette, Part II. The final Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines (FEQGs) for aluminum, selenium and siloxane-D4 have been published and serve to provide recommendations in quantitative or qualitative terms to support federal environmental quality monitoring. The Cyber Security Cooperation Program supports projects under the Government of Canada’s National Cyber Security Strategy. It is also a key element of the government’s broader plan to bolster Canada’s cyber security. This is led by Bill C-26, which will protect Canadians and increase cyber security across the financial, telecommunications, energy and transportation sectors.
New research shows that Ontario companies that use the COR™ national standard to implement and evaluate their occupational health and safety systems are reaping significant rewards, including an average lost-time injury rate that is almost one-third less than comparable non-COR™ firms. The main purpose of the draft Regulation is to detail the requirement for operators to equip heavy vehicles under their responsibility with an electronic logging device, and to detail the requirement for heavy vehicle drivers to use the device to produce a record of duty status in which their hours of service and hours of rest have been entered. The Province of Nova Scotia has submitted a made-in-Nova Scotia solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the Government of Canada. It is based on the legislated goals in the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards from companies or institutions that have developed a new green chemistry process or product that helps protect human health and the environment The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released Quality Assurance Bulletin-010 to notify the ambient air monitoring organizations within the CARB’s Primary Quality Assurance Organization (PQAO) of upcoming changes to procedures that the Standards Laboratory will implement for ozone transfer standards certifications and PM2.5 flow measurement equipment verifications. These procedural changes are effective August 22, 2022. The agency has updated its policy to discontinue the use of exposure modeling thresholds when assessing the health and environmental risks of new chemicals under TSCA. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is pleased to announce that Volume 130 of the IARC Monographs, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane and four other industrial chemicals, is now available online. Three of these agents (1,2-diphenylhydrazine, diphenylamine, and isophorone) were evaluated by the Working Group for the first time. looking for comments on 11 applications for authorisation and one review report covering 16 uses of: The deadline for comments is 12 October 2022. Safety Share The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has hundreds of free online fact sheets, but if you need more direct help, contact our Safety InfoLine! This free and confidential service is anyone in Canada. Healthy workplaces balance physical and psychological health and safety, which is good for everyone. Before using any chemical, it is important to understand the potential hazards associated with them. Keep chemical safety top of mind with the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety’s (CCOHS) new infographic. This is an interactive awareness training, utilizing the BNSF Hazmat Train with a mobile classroom, tank car and locomotive. IP4 will take place in Bucharest from 29 August to 2 September 2022. The conference will consist of a series of virtual sessions between September 8 and October 13, 2022. CHEMTREC’s International Hazmat Summit will take place from September 12-14, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will be honoring the past, present and future of the hazmat industry. The 2022 NSC Safety Congress & Expo will offer more than 125 educational opportunities including Professional Development Seminars, Keynotes and Technical Sessions. All designed to help you advance your career, earn CEUs and provide new skills to help you perform your day-to-day job better. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment will organise the second part of the Fourth Annual Forum on Endocrine Disruptors on 21-22 September 2022, in collaboration with the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). Theme: Collaborating for good The Summit is a full day event that will feature three panels, including an enforcers roundtable. Registrations are free and open to all virtually. Rodbell Auditorium, NIEHS, 111 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) ALT launched in 2021 as a virtual event that focused on alternative food products, alternative technologies and innovative alternatives to how the food industry produces and distributes products to end users. Safety starts with identifying hazards. Some are obvious, staring us in the fac The discussions will also focus on hot topics in Food Safety Management Systems. SQF Unites offers a unique combination of educational formats and engagement activities that you can tailor to meet your company and personal goals.Advocacy
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