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Canada's modernized Feeds Regulations, 2024 aim to enhance safety standards for food and animal feed while supporting Canadian producers. The regulations were published in the Canada Gazette...

If approved, the proposed Regulations compliment the Safe Foods For Canadians Act, which was passed by Parliament in 2012.

Medical device companies operate globally, but their products are regulated locally. Canadian companies selling into the United States must navigate not only Canadian law and policy, as applied by Health Canada and Canadian courts, but also U.S. law and policy, as applied by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), various state regulators, and state and federal courts.

Oft-referred to as "quintessential class actions", the majority of product liability actions that have sought certification as class proceedings in the last 10 years have been granted certification.

Two devastating news stories emerged this week regarding trampoline related pediatric injuries.

On April 30, 2020, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned in part the Nova Scotia Supreme Court's decision to certify a class action against Organigram Inc., a medical cannabis grower with...

Recalls of medical devices in Canada may be initiated voluntarily by a device manufacturer or may be requested by the Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate (the Inspectorate) of Health Canada.

As we all know, Amazon.com, Inc. and its Canadian affiliate, Amazon.ca, are giants in the world of e-commerce.

2022 was an unprecedented year in insolvency practice. For as long as anyone can remember, there have always been several large corporate insolvency filings with national...

If 2020 was a year of seismic shifts affecting Canada's class actions landscape, 2021 was a year of reverberations and aftershocks. The instability and uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic did not disappear.

On June 7, 2012 the federal government introduced the proposed Safe Food for Canadians Act (the Act).

In a recent case before the British Columbia Supreme Court, N&C Transportation Ltd. v. Navistar International Corp., 2016 BCSC 2129 [N&C] ...

In Swern v Amazon Hardwood Centre Inc., the appeal of an Ontario Small Claims Court decision, the Divisional Court found that product retailers have a duty to disclose product information in the context of an ordinary contractual relationship between a retailer and a consumer.

Health Canada has announced a procedural shift that will eliminate the requirement to submit finished product specifications as part of Natural Health Product licence applications starting June 25, 2026.

Product manufacturers claiming spoliation have not received much assistance from Canadian courts.

The Ontario Superior Court's recent decision in Parkhill Excavating Limited v Robert E. Young Construction Limited is an interesting snapshot of how Canadian courts treat product liability ...

Pleadings continue to be a popular battleground in the product liability context. Over the years, a body of law has developed respecting motions to strike for negligent design...

Well, here they go again. Another U.S. President has proposed a consolidation of all food safety functions into a single agency, the Federal Food Safety Agency. Nearly every President ...