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Carriages and Strollers Regulations (SOR/2023-101)

Regulations are current to 2024-08-18 and last amended on 2023-06-07. Previous Versions

SCHEDULE 1(Paragraph 4(c))Permissible Limits of Toxicity

    • 1 (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a substance or stuffing material is toxic for humans in all of the following cases:

      • (a) its acute oral LD50 value for rat is 5 g or less per kilogram of body weight;

      • (b) its acute dermal LD50 value for rabbit is 2 g or less per kilogram of body weight;

      • (c) its LC50 value for a one-hour exposure, determined using acute toxicity test results for rats, is 20,000 ppm by volume of gas or vapour or less, or 200 mg/L by volume of mist or dust or less, if gas, vapour, mist or dust is likely to be encountered when the substance or stuffing material is used in a reasonably foreseeable manner.

    • (2) LD50 and LC50 values are to be determined in accordance with good scientific practices.

 

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