Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Standard, the Electronic Cigarette Trade Association’s newest platform for keeping the Canadian vaping industry informed on the latest information regarding regulations, legislation, compliance and best practices. This is an exciting moment for the ECTA as it marks a leap forward in our ability to reach and help more…
Initially, this was only released to our membership. However, there has been a significant amount of concerning ‘scuttlebutt’ with regard to how Bill S5, an act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Non-smokers’ Health Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts, is and is not going to impact our industry. To help…
The Electronic Cigarette Trade Association (ECTA) is pleased to announce our partnership with the publishing firm MediaEdge Publishing Inc., to assist in the development and publication of our first official publication – The Standard, in accordance with our objectives: to facilitate discussion, improve market development and promote a healthy industry. The Standard will help keep…
That is the $1,000,000 (and/or up to two years in jail) question that everyone seems to be asking. Then there are others that are saying “nobody even knows what it will look like” and that simply is not a true statement. Here is what we know about labeling requirements under Bill S-5, soon to be the…
Yes, Bottles matter too. And no, we’re not just being funny. Everyone is scrambling to get e-liquid labels into compliance with Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations (CCCR), 2001 (and hopefully preparing for the application of the Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) which is coming soon) but they seem to be forgetting about their bottles. Perhaps…
We are getting reports of distributors contacting retailers and stating/implying that their e-liquid is produced in a “Health Canada approved lab” or have test results from the “only Health Canada approved e-liquid testing facility”. We get it, you want them to buy your product, but let’s be clear… Regulations for manufacturing or testing e-liquid do…
As many of you may already know, Charlene and John from VapeMate are stepping down as one of the ten original Founding Directors of the ECTA. Reluctantly, we have accepted their resignation. They have been extremely valuable assets to our organization and they will be sorely missed. They are moving to the US and, being the…
The Electronic Cigarette Trade Association (ECTA) of Canada is an industry-wide body working to ensure the correct legal and regulatory frameworks are applied to electronic cigarette products. ECTA was founded in 2011 by like-minded industry stakeholders. Over the past 6 years, ECTA has reviewed and identified many relative laws and regulatory frameworks within Canada that can be applied…
We have all heard and seen graphic images in news stories covering incidents related to vaping product batteries venting and / or exploding. Though they are quite rare, for the persons around and involved in these incidents, they are very real, very scary and in some cases cause significant pain or injury. As a standards organization, we…
We are happy to see that more and more Canadian E-liquid Manufacturers (even some outside of Canada) are opting to follow the Consumer Chemical Containers Regulations 2001. We believe these existing regulations, along with the Food and Drugs Regulations are a perfect fit for e-liquid and in some cases it IS the law that must be followed in…