An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (microbeads)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

John McKay  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of May 13, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Food and Drugs Act to prohibit the sale of cosmetics that contain pieces of plastic that measure five millimetres or less in every dimension.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.