The Canadian government has initiated the process of banning most flavored vaping products. The flavor ban will be implemented as a regulation by Health Canada, and will prohibit flavors other than tobacco, menthol and mint.
Health Canada will also finalize a rule, proposed last December, to cap the nicotine strength of e-liquid and DIY nicotine at 20 mg/mL (or two percent). Despite opposition from vapers during the public comment period, the nicotine cap rule was completed in the promised six-month timeframe. It will be published on June 23 and take effect on July 8. Retailers will have until July 23 to clear existing stock.
The draft flavor regulations were published Saturday in the Canada Gazette, serving notice that they too will be adopted in six months (technically 180 days)—sometime in January 2022.
The agency is proposing not just a ban on flavor descriptors or “characterizing” flavors—as most flavor restrictions do—but setting out a list of allowable ingredients used to create tobacco, menthol and mint e-liquid flavorings.
Jim McDonald – Vaping360.com – 2021-06-21.
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