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Notice: Technical requirements for anti-microbial claims for medical masks
This notice outlines the safety and effectiveness requirements for Class I medical masks and face coverings with anti-microbial claims. This notice is for manufacturers using... -
Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline technical document...
This guideline technical document reviews and assesses all identified health risks associated with strontium in drinking water. -
Home and community health care
"Home and community care" services help people to receive care at home, rather than in a hospital or long-term care facility, and to live as independently as possible in the... -
Home canning and bottling of seafood
Home canning and bottling allows people to enjoy their favourite seafood when it isn't in season or when it can't be harvested. This also allows Canadians to store seafood that... -
Interim Order Respecting Drugs, Medical Devices and Foods for a Special...
Immediate action is required to deal with a significant risk, direct or indirect, to health, safety or the environment. Therefore, the Minister of Health, pursuant to subsection... -
Testing devices for COVID-19: Test swabs safety and effectiveness guidance
This guidance document presents the criteria for safety and effectiveness that apply to test swabs used for COVID-19 sampling. It also provides guidance on how to meet these... -
Federal Contaminated Site Risk Assessment in Canada: Supplemental Guidance...
This guidance document was prepared to address issues of harvesting and ingestion of foods grown at contaminated sites. -
Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document...
Chromium occurs naturally in small amounts in rocks and soils, some of which is released into the aquatic environment through weathering and erosion processes. This guideline... -
Health Canada's Proposal to Add Cyanide in Apricot Kernels to the List of...
Food contaminants and other adulterating substances are chemicals that may be present in foods at levels that could impact the overall safety and/or quality of foods. These... -
Response to concerns about the new guidance on Novel Food Regulations,...
Health Canada implemented a new guidance on the Novel Food Regulations, focused on products of plant breeding. Canadians have expressed a number of concerns regarding the... -
Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarettes
Health Canada requires all cigarettes manufactured or imported for sale in Canada to have a reduced likelihood of igniting upholstered furniture, mattresses and bedding. -
Drug establishment licences and COVID-19
All Canadian drug establishments must have a drug establishment licence to fabricate, package/label, distribute, import, wholesale or test a drug as required under Part C,... -
Guidance Document Post-Drug Identification Number (DIN) Changes
The guidance is intended to advise both internal and external stakeholders regarding the filing requirements for post market changes and the data recommendations to support... -
Industry roles and responsibilities under the Cannabis Act
The Cannabis Act sets out a system for the legal, strictly regulated production, distribution and sale of cannabis -
Qualifying notice: Truseltiq
This Notice of Compliance with Conditions-Qualifying Notice (NOC/c-QN), issued in accordance with the Health Canada Guidance Document: Notice of Compliance with Conditions... -
How Health Canada inspects medical device establishments: Assessing...
If you manufacture, advertise or sell medical devices, certain sections of the Food and Drugs Act (the Act) apply to you. These sections are highlighted here to help you... -
Na3NTA - information sheet
The screening assessment summarized here focuses on glycine, N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-, trisodium salt. This substance may also be referred to as Na3NTA. It was assessed as part... -
Notice: Submission Filing Recommendations for Veterinary Drugs - Good...
Health Canada’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD) is clarifying the expectations for the information about Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) status that should accompany... -
Notice: Release of draft revised guidance documents on Post-Notice of...
Health Canada is pleased to announce the release of five associated revised draft guidance documents on Post-Notice of Compliance (NOC) Quality Changes for pharmaceutical,... -
Proposed Re-evaluation Decision PRVD2022-16, Dodecylguanidine Hydrochloride...
Dodecylguanidine hydrochloride is registered in Canada to control slime-forming bacteria and other microorganisms that form problematic biofilms on the surfaces of equipment in...