Consumer Products Containing Lead Regulations (SOR/2018-83)

Marginal note:Lead content — accessible part

• 2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), each accessible part of a consumer product containing lead must not contain more than 90 mg/kg of lead when tested in accordance with good laboratory practices.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Each accessible part may contain more than 90 mg/kg of lead if

  • (a) lead is necessary to produce an essential characteristic of the part;

  • (b) no alternative part containing less lead is available; and

  • (c) the part, when tested in accordance with good laboratory practices, does not release more than 90 mg/kg of lead.