Formaldehyde Emissions from Composite Wood Products Regulations

Marginal note:Composite wood panels

• 20 (1) Subject to section 23, a manufacturer or importer of composite wood panels must ensure that a label that includes the following information is affixed, at the time of their sale, to the composite wood panels, the bundle that contains them or their packaging:

  • (a) the name of the manufacturer of the composite wood panels;

  • (b) the lot number; and

  • (c) either

    • (i) if the product type is compliant with or certified under TSCA Title VI, the statement “TSCA Title VI compliant / conforme au titre VI de la TSCA” or “TSCA Title VI certified / certifié conformément au titre VI de la TSCA” and either the name of the third-party certifier that certified the composite wood panels or the number that the United States Environmental Protection Agency assigned to it, or

    • (ii) if the product type is included in a declaration of certification produced under paragraph 19(1)(b), the statement “CANFER compliant / conforme au CANFER” and the name of the third-party certifier referred to in section 18.

• Marginal note:Copy of label

  (2) Subject to section 23, a person that purchases a composite wood panel from a manufacturer or importer referred to in subsection (1) may sell it or offer it for sale without the associated label if

  • (a) they maintain a copy of the label; and

  • (b) they make the information included on the label available to any person on request.

• Marginal note:Definition of CANFER

  (3) For the purposes of the statement referred to in subparagraph (1)(c)(ii) and 21(1)(c)(ii), CANFER is a reference to these Regulations.