Currently we have to provide our safety data sheets, which I think the clerk has shared with all of you, and we have to retain those in a database. This additional request has evolved over the course of the implementation of the Hazardous Products Act and its regulations.
Just to clarify, the Hazardous Products Act classifies and labels workplace chemicals. The act is very thick and very technical. The regulations are thick, and the guidance is thick. It's a very complicated piece of legislation and regulation to make sure that companies are compliant. As a result of this being put into the act, we have been asking Health Canada for an explanation as to how we as companies can comply with the law, paragraph 14.3(1)(a). It's been an evolving narrative.
Where we've landed over the course of the discussions in the last 18 months is that they want us to take a photo of every label we receive. They want a ruler beside the label and the photo kept, and they want us to retain that photo in a database in Canada for six years.
It's a very cumbersome process, as we go through and have to take a photo of each raw material that comes in and keep that in a database. It would be like going into Walmart or a bulk store and taking a picture of every label, and as new products come in, taking pictures of all those products as well. Then, for any changes that are made to current labels within your stock, you have to make sure those are up to date as well.