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In Canada, there is no official positive list of substances or additives that are permitted for use in manufacturing food contact materials or articles. There is no mandatory food contact notification or testing requirement either. If you place food contact materials on Canadian market, you will need to assure your customers that they are compliant …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will ban single-use plastics — which could include bags, straws and cutlery — in Canada in 2021 at the earliest. “We need to cover all of Canada with this decision and that’s why the federal government is moving forward on a science-based approach to establishing which harmful single-use plastics we will …

Nobody would argue that plastic packaging has been a disaster for the environment. It requires a lot of petroleum oil to produce, it doesn’t decompose very easily, not enough of it is recycled and what is recycled requires a lot of water and energy in processing. According to the World Economic Forum, it is estimated …

Canadians say they care about the environmental damage caused by single-use plastic packaging, but not enough to open up their wallets and pay for costlier alternatives, a new study suggests. “I was disappointed,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University professor and researcher on the study, which surveyed 1,014 Canadians online between May 13 and 18. …