The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) administered by Health Canada uses a number of compliance and enforcement tools in order to correct non-compliance under the Act or the regulations.
The CCPSA is to protect the public by addressing or preventing dangers to human health or safety that are posed by consumer products in Canada, including those that circulate within Canada and those that are imported. The Minister has the authority to order a company to recall a dangerous product or to take certain measures such as stopping the manufacturing, importing, advertising or the sale of a product.
Failure to comply with an order may result in Health Canada requiring the company to pay a financial penalty, called an administrative monetary penalty (AMP). The AMP system is a compliance and enforcement tool that assigns a penalty amount to companies that do not comply with an order made under the Act.
AMP Reports inform Canadians as to which companies have been issued notices of alleged violations related to an order made to recall their product, to take a corrective measure or to comply with a reviewed order.
Learn more on consumer product safety and on reporting.