Regulatory
REGULATORY NEWS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 19, 2018
In two months, many businesses will require a licence when the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) come into force. Find out if your business will need a licence or be required to meet other SFCR requirements by January 15, 2019 by visiting the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) interactive tools and timelines.
Food businesses should enroll now in My CFIA and be prepared to apply for a licence once it becomes available. In order to apply for a licence, businesses will need to attest that they have preventive controls in place. Those who submit an SFCR licence application by email or fax will be redirected to apply online using My CFIA. The CFIA has proposed a $250 fee for the SFCR licence. This fee amount will be confirmed prior to coming into force on January 15, 2019.
The next meeting is scheduled for December 4th and 5th in Washington. Dave Saucier, Regional Director Eastern Canada will attend on behalf of RDC member organizations.
The Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) Stakeholder Forum brings together senior regulatory officials, industry, and other members of the public from both sides of the U.S-Canada border. Canadian and U.S. regulators will provide progress reports on existing regulatory cooperation efforts and solicit public input on new opportunities for regulatory cooperation. The RCC promotes economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, and job creation through the elimination of unnecessary regulatory differences between our two countries.
The purpose of the notice is to collect basic information on quantities, concentrations and uses from manufacturers and importers, to inform the commercial status of these substances and to establish an inventory of QACs in Canada. Every person to whom the notice applies is required to comply no later than April 24, 2019, 3 p.m. EDT.
Health Canada is pleased to announce the release of the draft Drug and natural health products recall guide (GUI-0039) for a sixty-day public consultation from November 15, 2018 to January 14, 2019. This document, Draft – Drug and natural health products recall guide, interprets sections of the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations that pertain to the recall of drugs and natural health products. Guidance documents like this one are meant to help industry and health care professionals understand how to comply with regulations. They also provide guidance to Health Canada staff for fair and consistent compliance and enforcement across Canada.
RDC will consult members and submit comments and recommendations. Please send any comments you wish to have included to Dave Saucier [email protected] by January 10th, 2019.
On November 28, 2018 each province and territory plans to issue a public awareness Alert Ready test over radio, TV and wireless networks at 1:55 p.m. local time (2:55 p.m. local time in Quebec) to further assess and refine the system.
During Brake Safety Week, Sept. 16-22, 2018, enforcement personnel in 57 jurisdictions throughout Canada and the United States conducted 35,080 inspections on commercial motor vehicles and captured and reported data on brake violations. The majority of vehicles inspected did not have any brake-related out-of-service conditions; however, inspectors found critical vehicle inspection items in the brake systems of 4,955 (14.1 percent) of the vehicles inspected and placed those vehicles out of service until the condition(s) could be corrected.
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) will host Forum 2019: The Changing World of Work, March 5-6, 2019, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
CCOHS’ Forum is a unique event that will bring together leaders, change-makers, and subject experts representing government, labour, and workplaces to share their knowledge and experience around current and emerging health and safety issues. The event will focus on the workplace of today and tomorrow, in which accommodation, diversity, and inclusivity are not just nice-to-haves, but a must for any organization.
The deadline for completing your workplace’s transition to WHMIS 2015 is just weeks away. By December 1, provincially regulated workplaces must be fully compliant with Canada’s new standard for classifying, labelling and communicating information about hazard products in the workplace. Federally regulated workplaces have until May 31, 2019.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes the Semiannual Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions online to update the public. This document contains information about regulations in the Semiannual Agenda that are under development, completed, or canceled since the last agenda.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final fees rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), ensuring that resources are available to the Agency to complete chemical reviews and actions in a timely, transparent manner while maintaining high scientific standards.
EPA is announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on the draft Risk Evaluation for Colour Index (C. I.) Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) and associated documents developed under EPA’s existing chemical substance process under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The purpose of the risk evaluation is to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk to health or the environment under the conditions of use, including an unreasonable risk to a relevant potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulation.
EPA is proposing significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 66 chemical substances which were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs). The chemical substances are subject to Orders issued by EPA pursuant to section 5(e) of TSCA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposes to amend Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25600.2, subsections (b), (c) and (f), Responsibility to Provide Consumer Product Exposure Warnings.
ECHA has launched a public consultation on the review report received in the REACH authorization as
The deadline for comments is 9 January 2019 (23:59 Helsinki time).
Safety Share
Ice and snow are inevitable, but injuries to your workers and customers from slips, trips and falls are not. The key to keeping people safe from winter hazards is to be proactive with your prevention plan. This means “don’t wait for the snow to fall before raising employee awareness about winter hazards” and “check in advance if your outside contractor will clear snow and ice in an emergency.”
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