Health Canada has launched the public consultation for the intention to revise the Toys Regulation. Any interested party can provide feedback by completing the questionnaire on the Health Canada website. Comments will be accepted until 21 September 2023.

On 23 June 2023, Health Canada launched the public consultation for the intention to revise the Toys Regulation (SOR/2011-17). Any party that is interested in safety of toys is urged to provide feedback by completing the questionnaire on the Health Canada website. The website is open for public comment until 21 September 2023.

The new proposal seeks to revise seven items associated with chemical and toxicity requirements in the Toys Regulation including:

- Addition of non-human sources of toxicity data for a more comprehensive assessment of the risk exposure of toxic substances in toys；

- Modification of requirement for corrosive, irritant or sensitizing substances by using weight of evidence approach；

- Modification to move to testing of all toys for the presence of boric acid and salts of boric acid；

- Expansion of the requirements for migration of certain elements in toys and modify the total limit of mercury；

- Adoption of extra requirements for finger paints as stated in ISO 8124-7 – Safety of Toys Part 7，Addition of requirements by incorporation of ASTM F963 Standard；

- Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety by ambulatory reference for liquids, pastes, putties, gels, powders, and items of avian feather origin；

- Inclusion of an ambulatory incorporation by reference with ISO 8124-11 for chemical toy (sets) other than experimental sets.

A 180-day transition period is being proposed by Health Canada for future changes to documents incorporated by ambulatory reference. Regulated parties will benefit from clarity surrounding when they must comply with new editions of reference documents.

Source:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/programs/consultation-proposal-amend-toys-regulations.html

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-2011-17/FullText.html

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