Program directory · Health Canada
Consumer Product Safety
- Department
- Health Canada
- Program code
- BVH10 (H)
- Core responsibility
- Health Protection and Promotion
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Consumer Product Safety Program’s objective is to manage the potential health and safety risks posed by consumer products and cosmetics in the Canadian marketplace. This objective aims to reduce adverse health occurrences related to products available to people in Canada. The Program identifies, assesses, manages, and communicates health or safety risks associated with consumer products and cosmetics to people in Canada. Efforts are focused in three areas: active prevention (such as the development and promotion of standards, and increasing consumer awareness); targeted oversight (such as sampling consumer products to confirm compliance with health and safety requirements); and rapid response (which includes the effective use of compliance and enforcement tools such as recalls). The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and the cosmetics provisions of the Food and Drugs Act provide the authorities for this Program to support industry's responsibility for the safety of their products and consumers' responsibility to make informed decisions about product purchase and use.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Product Safety | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $241M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Indicators added: Percentage of incident reports involving a death and/or recall triaged within service standard; Percentage of incident reports not involving a death or recall triaged within service standard | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of incident reports triaged within service standard | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Indicators dropped: Percentage of domestic consumer product recalls communicated to Canadians in a timely manner | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 95% | 2021 | 90% 90% of incoming incident reports involving a death or recall (95 of 106) were processed within the one business day service standard. The 25 incoming reports related to a death were all processed within the one business day service standard. Challenges to processing reports on time included: an increased number of reports with a higher share of them being submitted via email which requires manual… | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 95% | 2022 | 94% For incident reports involving a death and/or recall, 94% were triaged within the service standard of one business day, 100% of reports involving a death were triaged within the service standard and 92% of reports involving recalls were triaged within the service standard. A high number of complex incidents led to some processing delays in 2021-22. | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 95% | 2023 | 95% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 95% | 2024 | 96% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 90% | 2025 | 92% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 85% | 2021 | 73% 73% of incoming incident reports not involving a death or recall (1,809 of 2,475) were processed within the five business day service standard. Challenges included: an increased number of reports with a higher share of them being submitted via email which requires manual data entry; increased volume of industry requests to extend mandatory reporting deadlines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic;… | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 85% | 2022 | 89% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 85% | 2023 | 92% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 85% | 2024 | 90% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 85% | 2025 | 87% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 85% – 90% | 2019 | 93% The result surpassed the planned target. The result is described as “Target not met” due to a technical restriction of the reporting system. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 85% | 2020 | 86% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 85% | 2021 | 86% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 90% | 2022 | 83% This target was not met largely due to supply-chain and COVID-19-related delays experienced by external stakeholders with whom Health Canada collaborates on this indicator. There were no recalls related to hazards that posed a serious, imminent threat to human health | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 90% | 2023 | 71% This target was not met largely due to companies requesting additional time to prepare their recalls for posting due to logistical, testing, and other compliance-related challenges. The Department continues to work with industry to support a common and clear understanding of legislative requirements and testing procedures enabling industry to react in a timely manner when the need for a recall is… | Not met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 90% | 2024 | 76% This target was not met largely due to companies requesting additional time to confirm or expand the details surrounding the recall, such as testing, logistical considerations and other compliance-related delays. The Department continues to work with industry to support a common and clear understanding of legislative requirements and testing procedures enabling industry to react in a timely manne… | Not met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 90% | 2025 | 87% The target was not met largely due to companies requesting additional time to confirm or expand the details surrounding the recall posting, such as testing, logistical considerations and other compliance-related delays. The Department continues to work with industry to support a common and clear understanding of legislative requirements and testing procedures enabling industry to react in a timel… | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 95% | 2019 | 78% Increased volume of incident reporting led to a drop in performance mid-year. Additional resources were allocated to address this performance issue. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 95% | 2020 | 69% This was a transition year for the Program, as it moved towards a new, risk-based approach to triaging that enhanced prioritization of incoming incident reports based on the level of the risk being reported. Starting in July 2019, the Program began targeting the triage of incoming incident reports involving a death and/or recall within 1 business day of receipt, and the triaging of incoming incid… | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 90% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 85% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $35.2M | $31.3M |
| 2019-20 | $35.7M | $33.4M |
| 2020-21 | $35.1M | $29.4M |
| 2021-22 | $32.1M | $33.5M |
| 2022-23 | $36.4M | $34.7M |
| 2023-24 | $36.5M | $40.4M |
| 2024-25 | $33.4M | $38.9M |
| 2025-26 | $39.2M | — |
| 2026-27 | $33.9M | — |
| 2027-28 | $33.5M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $33M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 283 | 256 |
| 2019-20 | 283 | 270 |
| 2020-21 | 281 | 273 |
| 2021-22 | 254 | 256 |
| 2022-23 | 276 | 280 |
| 2023-24 | 276 | 284 |
| 2024-25 | 253 | 281 |
| 2025-26 | 274 | — |
| 2026-27 | 251 | — |
| 2027-28 | 251* | — |
| 2028-29 | 236* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $35,150,635 | $35,133,790 | $34,755,836 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $35,716,726 | $35,338,511 | $30,729,236 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $35,079,098 | $30,481,815 | $30,481,915 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $32,080,181 | $32,203,186 | $32,203,186 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $36,427,419 | $36,427,419 | $31,956,875 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $36,541,329 | $32,066,276 | $32,066,276 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $33,426,224 | $33,560,300 | $33,124,633 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $39,224,681 | $34,287,349 | $34,287,607 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $33,922,353 | $33,522,835 | $33,005,261 | ||||||||
| Actual | $31,280,754 | $33,355,031 | $29,423,033 | $33,483,468 | $34,703,753 | $40,379,787 | $38,871,756 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
