International Trade committee   and a distributor to end-users. We make approximately 60,000 deliveries a year in our own trucks. During COVID, my company was on the front lines, trying to fulfill the requirements of customers for not only biocides but also other needed supplies, such as hand sanitizers, gloves and masks. My

Transport committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I certainly support the intent and direction of Mr. Muys's question. I struggle to imagine a way around this. It seems to me that the costs are the costs. I think the challenge of recovering the headsets and then sanitizing them.... Probably paying to have

International Trade committee   room with sanitizers. The product would go into the air and then land on a surface. Theoretically, it would disinfect or sanitize the surface. The amount that was done during that period was incredible, the amount of rooms and stuff. There were still people doing it a couple

International Trade committee  I do. I'm not a regulatory expert. I know it takes longer than it should right now. There could be as many as 700 to 1,000 sanitizers that are not currently registered that would need to be registered under the new law. I think it's still positive, because in our world

International Trade committee  This is an essential product category. A prime example is food factories. I know them well, as I've been going into them for years now. Factories are cleaned from top to bottom every night. Cleaning staff are dedicated to this and work very hard. They have to sanitize all

International Trade committee  Thank you. This is a learning experience for everyone around this table. I'd like to back up and learn a bit more about biocides in general. It's clear that they are sanitizer types of things that you would use to clean surfaces or skin or whatever. You mentioned the impact

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. The disinfectants and sanitizers are used for hard surfaces and/or soft surfaces. Those microbial elimination products do include alcohols. However, hand sanitizers are not included in the biocides regulations. These biocides are used on hard, non

International Trade committee   by the proposed regulations—surface sanitizers and disinfectants—are currently governed under two separate pieces of legislation, the Food and Drugs Act and the Pest Control Products Act, and regulated by separate agencies. Given that these products have similar risk profiles and are used

International Trade committee   defines biocides as chemicals that “kill pests, including insects, rodents, fungi and unwanted plants”. That said, as you heard from the government officials during your last meeting, Health Canada defines biocides as “surface sanitizers” and “disinfectants” that are regulated under

Environment committee  One moment, Mr. Chair. I'll just check my notes. I was briefed by colleagues who work in the human rights division before coming. Mr. Chair, Canada recognizes the human right of everyone to safe drinking water and basic sanitation as essential to the right to an adequate

International Trade committee  Until now, we've frequently evoked the COVID‑19 pandemic in support of the proposed regulations. Am I mistaken or did the United States say at some point that it would stop exporting sanitizing products and keep them for itself? I remember a time when there were empty shelves

International Trade committee   for that transition period that I talked about earlier. Some areas of concern include wanting to bring in other products under this framework, perhaps sanitizers for air, water and other uses, other than hard- and soft-surface sanitizers. Some companies suggested that we should look at bringing

International Trade committee   branch, as well as colleagues from Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency and Global Affairs Canada. In Canada, biocides are products that sanitize or disinfect non-living and non-liquid surfaces to prevent disease in humans or animals. Examples of biocides include wipes

Transport committee  It seems extremely wasteful to send headsets out and not ask for them back. We can sanitize those. I just make the point.

International Trade committee  It varies by country. The U.S. is a good example. It depends on the sector. The American federation works a little differently from ours, so the jurisdiction can shift depending on the setting. For sanitizers that are used in a manufacturing facility, yes, there are state-level