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New overseas product safety regulations
New Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act regulations, trial regulations banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics, electronic certification of organic products imported from the European Union, and new requirements for warning labels in California Proposition 65.
This article introduces the new regulations of the Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act, the trial regulations banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics, electronic certification of organic products imported from the European Union, and the new requirements for warning labels in California Proposition 65. While understanding regulatory developments in overseas countries, you also need to understand Amazon's specific requirements for some products, avoid security compliance risks, and optimize your sales experience. Therefore, this article will also introduce the regulations and requirements that smoke alarm products that Amazon is concerned about must comply with in overseas markets.
Product regulation updates
1 Canada Releases New Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) Regulations
On July 13, 2016, Canada issued revised regulations under the CCPSA. According to the regulatory impact analysis statement, the purpose of issuing the revised regulations is to make immaterial changes to 32 regulations under the CCPSA on the basis of the 2011 regulatory revisions. Prior to the publication of these 32 changes, Part II of the Canadian Gazette published the following regulations:
- The new Cigarette Ignition Tendency (Consumer Goods) Regulations (SOR /2016-103) were issued on May 20, 2016 and came into effect on November 17, 2016.
- The new Crib, Crib, and Cradle Regulations (SOR /2016-152) were published on June 29, 2016 and will come into effect on December 29, 2016. A detailed overview of the new regulations can be found on SGS Notice 137/16. Once the new regulations come into effect, the existing Crib, Crib, and Cradle Regulations (SOR/2010-261) will be repealed.
The following regulations under the CCPSA remain unchanged:
- Administrative Fines (Consumer Goods) Regulations (SOR/2013-101);
- Exemption Regulations (Consumer Products) (SOR-2015-97)
2 The Canadian Government issued a trial regulation banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics
Concern over plastic microbead pollution has escalated globally. Recently, the Canadian federal government published a trial regulation on “banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics” on its official website. The regulation applies to cosmetics containing plastic microbeads not larger than 5 mm in diameter, including “any personal care product for cleaning or hygiene of hair, skin, teeth and mouth, including exfoliating products, and any natural health product or non-prescription drug”. According to the regulations, the production and import of cosmetics containing plastic microbeads (excluding natural health products and non-prescription drugs) is prohibited from January 1, 2018. As of July 1, 2018, the sale of cosmetics containing plastic microbeads (excluding natural health products and non-prescription drugs) is prohibited. Since July 1, 2018, the production and import of natural health products and non-prescription drugs containing plastic microbeads will be prohibited; since July 1, 2019, the sale of natural health products and non-prescription drugs containing plastic microbeads will be prohibited.
The implementation of this regulation is no accident; in August 2015, plastic microbeads were added to Canada's Environmental Protection Toxic Substances List.
3 The EU will use electronic certification for imported organic products next year for a six-month transition period
On October 19, the European Commission issued regulations on introducing an electronic certification system for imported organic products, which will be implemented six months later. According to reports, the purpose of this regulation is to ensure the consistency of organic product transportation and import inspections, enhance the traceability of organic products, reduce potential fraud, reduce administrative costs for operators and management departments, and provide comprehensive statistics on organic product imports. The regulation will take effect on April 19, 2017. During the six-month transition period, both paper and electronic authentication can be used. From October 19, 2017, organic product imports will only use electronic certification.
4 California Prop 65 New Labeling Requirements
On August 30, 2016, California passed California Proposition 65 to amend regulations regulating “clear and reasonable warnings,” repealing and replacing Section 6 of Title 27 of the California Regulations. The regulation came into effect on August 30, 2018. The new requirements clarify the duty of consumer goods retailers, manufacturers, websites, and product registrations to warn.
Some of the major revisions include:
- “This product contains” was revised to “This product can cause (cancer/reproductive harm)”;
- The warning label must include at least one chemical name. If the product contains multiple chemicals other than those indicated on the label, indicate at least one. Businesses can list other chemicals on the label;
- The label must include the OEHHA URL;
- Warning symbol with an equilateral triangle with an exclamation mark. The triangle must have a bold outline. If the label containing the warning is printed in color, the triangle must be yellow. This symbol is followed by a capital word “WARNING” (WARNING), in bold, and the font size is the same as the triangle symbol.
Safety and compliance tips
Following the removal of non-compliant smoke alarms and detector products by Amazon in the US in July of this year due to safety issues, Amazon markets in various countries will also strengthen controls on these products, and sales of related products that do not meet quality and safety requirements will be prohibited. What are the standards and requirements to sell this type of product in other Amazon marketplaces?(See US market requirements here)
Europe:
- EU Construction Products CPR Regulation EU No. 305/2011 (EU) No 305/2011; harmonized standard EN 54 or EN 14604
- Low Voltage Directive LVD2014/35/EU; Harmonized Standard EN 60065
- Electromagnetic compatibility Directive EMC 2014/30/EU; harmonized standard EN 50130-4
- Hazardous Substances Directive RoHS 2011/65/EU; Harmonized Standard EN 50581
- Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive WEEE 2012/19/EU; Harmonized Standard EN 50419
- EU REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006
Japan:
- The product must have the Kentei logo and production implementation standards
- Related products with plugs also require PSE certification
- Wireless-related products also need to obtain a Japanese radio equipment giteki certificate
MX:
- Electrical Product Design and Production Safety Requirements NOM_001_SCFI_1993
- Mexican electrical product safety technical requirements: NOM-003-SCFI-2014；NMX-J-508-ANCE-2010
CA:
- Alarm products: CAN/ULC-S531
- Detector products: CAN/ULC-S529
- Thermal detector products: CAN/ULC-S530
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