Update On Proposed Mandatory Product Recall Law

Legislation to enact the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and complementary amendments to the Food and Drugs Act, two key components of Canada's new Food and Consumer Product Safety Action Plan, was tabled in the House of Commons earlier this month.

The Food and Consumer Product Safety Action Plan, announced by Prime Minister Harper in December, 2007, proposes a series of initiatives to modernize and strengthen Canada's safety system for food, health and consumer products. Principal plan elements include:

• emphasizing industry's responsibility to provide safe products;
  
  
• mandatory reporting requirements;