Compliance and enforcement reporting for the Consumer Product Safety Program: Dashboard
Health Canada’s Consumer Product Safety Program is responsible for preventing, detecting and responding to health or safety risks posed by consumer products and cosmetics in the Canadian market. The dashboard provides information on the compliance and enforcement activities undergone to ensure that these products are safe for people in Canada.
- Last updated: 2025-10-17
Key updates for
Compliance and enforcement activities are conducted on an ongoing basis, but the dashboard is updated on an annual basis. Select the fiscal year to see the data for that time period.
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Imported shipments referred by the CBSA
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Product-based inspections conducted
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Non-compliant products identified
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Recalls posted
About these data tiles
- Tile 1: The number of shipments of imported consumer products reviewed at the border by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and referred to the Consumer Product Safety Program (CPSP) for admissibility recommendation.
- Tile 2: The number of inspections conducted, whereby inspectors visited online or onsite establishments to procure product samples for Compliance Verification.
- Tile 3: The number of unique products identified as not complying with the requirements of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act or its Regulations.
- Tile 4: The number of recall notices posted on the Government of Canada website for products determined to pose a health or safety hazard to consumers.
Text description
This graph represents the number of shipments of imported products referred to Health Canada's Consumer product Safety Program for recommendations on admissibility. The CPSP can recommend that a product is refused entry into Canada (refused), allowed entry (released) or other actions including seizure of the product, referral to another regulatory body, or a request for more information.
Notes
- Reported incident: An incident that was reported to Health Canada by a consumer, industry, media, or other regulatory body
- Inspection: A planned inspection, either ad-hoc or part of a compliance verification project
- External monitoring: An incident or hazard that was identified through surveillance of media or recall notices from other regulatory bodies
Top recalled consumer product categories
Notes
- For information about how we categorize products, please refer to Consumer product and cosmetics reports received: Product categories
Notes
- Recalls, stop sales, stop distributions and trader commitments are defined in the "Understanding the data" tab of the dashboard. Other corrective measures may include alerts, advisories, corrections, disposals and/or orders. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Program webpage for more information about how inspections and sampling are done.
- The data summarized in the figure is drawn from Compliance Verification projects that were completed during the selected fiscal year. Some of those projects may have been initiated during the prior fiscal year. For Health Canada, a fiscal year is April 1st to March 31st. The following projects are included:
Notes
- Project outcomes refers to the resulting corrective actions taken for each sample assessed. Multiple samples might be captured under the same recall notice, therefore the number of recalls here may not align with the number of recall notices published.
- Recalls, stop sales, stop distributions and trader commitments are defined in the "Understanding the data" tab of the dashboard. Other corrective measures may include alerts, advisories, corrections, disposals and/or orders. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Program webpage for more information about how inspections and sampling are done.
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