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Jun 16, 2010
Transport Canada Proposes New Packaging Requirements. If adopted, this standard would establish a number of new requirements, and create, for the first time, packing instructions for small means of containment in Canada.

May 26, 2010
Study concluded that out of 1,583 air incidents studied, a failure of the inner packagings inside outer packagings (a typical "combination" package design) contributed to 333 incidents of spillage.

Feb 03, 2010
On Tuesday, February 1, 2010,(PHMSA)published a final rule under HM-231 regarding packaging requirements in the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR). The final rule is effective Oct1, 2010 with voluntary compliance allowed as of Mar 4, 2010

Jan 02, 2010
Until recently, lithium batteries (especially small, consumer-sized ones) were considered to be essentially negligible as far as being a danger during transportation. However, due to several serious incidents.

Jan 02, 2010
On September 30, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that starts the long process of introducing the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) into North America.


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