Manufacturing Regulations

• Banned Consumer Chemicals: The purpose of the Hazardous Products Act, HPA, is to protect the health and safety of consumers by prohibiting or regulating the sale, advertising or importation of hazardous or potentially hazardous consumer products, and to ensure the protection of Canadian workers and employers from the adverse effects of hazardous materials through the provision of precautionary labelling and material safety data sheets, MSDSs.
• Benzene in Gasoline: The purpose of the Benzene in Gasoline Regulation is to prohibit the supply after July 1, 1999 of gasoline that contains benzene at a concentration exceeding 1.0% by volume. It also prohibits the sale or the offer for sale of gasoline that contains benzene at a concentration that exceeds 1.5% by volume after July 1, 2000 in the northern supply area, and October 1, 1999 everywhere else in Canada.
• The regulation also prohibits the supply of gasoline after July 1, 1999 that exceeds a benzene emission number of 71 during the summer, and 92 during the winter.
• Brewery Departmental Regulations: The Brewery Departmental Regulations prescribe the calculation for how much excise duty is to be paid as well as when a licensed brewer is entitled to a drawback. In addition they set out the information that must be recorded in a brewer's books and records and the information required in the monthly return to be provided to the CRA.
• Brewery Regulations: The Brewery Regulations prescribe for brewers the definition of a production day, provides for refunds on destroyed beer, provides for a loss allowance and outlines the information required on containers. Beer exports and the payment of excise duty are also addressed.
• CA Number Registration and Database: A CA Number is a five-digit identification number preceded by the letters "CA". Companies use this number to meet provisions of the Textile Labelling Act that require prescribed consumer textile articles to be labelled with the identity of the person by or for whom the textile articles were made.
• Commercial Production of Industrial Hemp: The Industrial Hemp Regulations control the activities relating to importation, exportation, possession, production, sale, provision, transport, sending, delivering of industrial hemp.
• Cosmetics Regulations: A "cosmetic" is defined in the Food and Drugs Act to include "any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold or represented for use in cleansing, improving or altering the complexion, skin, hair or teeth, and include deodorants and perfumes".
• Fees - Excise Duty Licenses: The Excise Act Licence Fees Regulations set out the annual fees that the Canada Revenue Agency charges for issuing and renewing excise duty licences for the manufacture of beer only.
• ARCHIVE - Food: The Food and Drug Regulations (Regulations) specify compositional requirements for standardized foods and regulate limits and /or permitted uses for food additives, agricultural chemicals, veterinary drugs, packaging materials, food irradiation process and prescribe areas and levels for nutrient fortification of foods. In addition, the Regulations specify requirements for the production, labelling, marketing, distribution and processing of pharmaceutical drugs.
• Fuels Information Regulations, No. 1: The Fuels Information Regulations, No. 1, require every person who produces or imports more than 400 cubic metres (i.e., 400 000 L or 87 988 Imp. gallons) of aviation turbo fuel, gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel or fuel oils per year to submit to Environment Canada. Also, The Fuels Information Regulations, No. 1, require every person who produces in Canada or imports into Canada a fuel that contains any additive other than lead or lead compounds shall submit a report to the Minister.
• General Excise and Sales Tax Regulations: The General Excise and Sales Tax Regulations outline the rules applicable to licensing of manufacturers, producers and wholesalers for the purpose of excise tax; the licensing exemption for small manufacturers, the security required by licenced wholesalers; returns and payments.
• Labelling - Packaging Consumer Products (Non-Food): The Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act applies to any person who is a retailer, manufacturer, processor or producer of a product, or a person who is engaged in the business of importing, packing or selling any product.
• Labelling - Textiles: The Textile Labelling Act applies to any person who manufactures, processes, finishes, imports or sells consumer textile articles.
• Labelling Claims: The Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act applies to any person who is a retailer, manufacturer, processor or producer of a product, or a person who is engaged in the business of importing, packing or selling any product.
• Laundry Detergent - Phosphorus: The Phosphorus Concentration Regulations set out the allowable levels of concentrations of phosphorus, by percentage, in any laundry detergent, and prescribes the approved methods of determining those concentrations.
• Lead and Phosphorus in Gasoline: The Gasoline Regulations set concentration limits for lead and phosphorus in gasoline, and provide higher limits or exemptions for special uses of leaded gasoline.
  
• Medical Devices: The Medical Devices Bureau of the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) of Health Canada is the national authority that monitors and evaluates the safety, effectiveness and quality of diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices in Canada.
• New Substances Notification: The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999) provides the federal government with authority to address substances that may become toxic on land, in water, and through all layers of the atmosphere. As part of a "cradle to grave" management approach to toxic substances, the provisions for substances new to Canada in CEPA 1999 are intended to ensure that no new substance is introduced into the Canadian marketplace before an assessment of whether it is "toxic" has been completed. "Toxic", as defined in CEPA 1999, refers to risk to human health or the environment.
• Pesticides: The Pest Control Product Regulations require that all pest control products imported into, sold or used in Canada or used or contained in another control product in Canada be registered.
• Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances: The Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2003 prohibit the manufacture, import, use, process, sale and offer for sale of certain prohibited toxic substances.
• Radiation Emitting Devices: The Radiation Emitting Devices (RED) Act (Act) governs the sale, lease and import of certain radiation emitting devices used for medical and industrial purposes or by consumers. The Act sets safety performance standards for the sale, lease, import, labelling, packaging, and advertising of radiation emitting devices to ensure that workers and the public are not placed at risk.
• Regulation of Explosives: The Explosives Regulations establishs a testing protocol for authorization and classification of any explosive to determine the safety of the product and establishs criteria for storage, transportation and general use of the product. Additionally, there are specific rules for licensing services provided to manufacturers, importers and distributors of explosives within Canada.
• Release of Lead to the Atmosphere: The Regulations limit the concentration of lead in particulates emitted from specified sources.
• Responsibilities Under the Tobacco Act: The Tobacco Act is applicable to all people, including retailers, distributors, importers and manufacturers of tobacco products.
• Chlorobiphenyls Regulations: The Regulations specify the concentration that may be used in specified equipment and products and quantities that may be released.
• Solvent Degreasing Regulations - TCE and PERC: The purpose of the Solvent Degreasing Regulations is to reduce the use of trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PERC) from solvent degreasing facilities using more than 1 000 kilograms of TCE and PERC per year. These Regulations include a market intervention by establishing tradable allowances for the use of TCE and PERC in solvent degreasing operations that exceed the 1 000 kilograms threshold per year.
• Specific Substances which use Masked Names: The Masked Name Regulations set out the manner in which the masked name is determined. The application for masked designation is made following a request for confidentiality.

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