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| List or group: | Non-regulatory Instruments |
| Substance identifier: | 7440-09-7 |
| Substance identifier (2): | |
| Substance name: | Potassium chloride |
| Additional information: | Code of Practice This substance is included in the road salts code of practice. This Code applies to organizations that use more than 500 tonnes of road salts per year (five-year rolling average) and organizations that have vulnerable areas in their territory that could be potentially impacted by road salts. For further information on this substance, please visit: Priority Substances List Assessment Report for Road Salts. |
| Recent publication(s): | Road salts environmental management: code of practice |
| Date published: | 2013-07-02 |
| List or group: | Domestic Substances List Categorization Results |
| Substance identifier: | 7440-09-7 |
| Substance identifier (2): | |
| Substance name: | Potassium |
| Additional information: | Did not meet the criteria under subsection 73(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). For more information, please consult the Categorization of chemical substances web page and the Detailed categorization results of the Domestic Substances List found in Open Data. |
| Recent publication(s): | Canadian Environmental Protection Act: categorization of existing substances |
| Date published: | 2006-09-14 |
| List or group: | Domestic Substances List (DSL) |
| Substance identifier: | 7440-09-7 |
| Substance identifier (2): | |
| Substance name: | Potassium |
| Additional information: | This substance is on the Domestic Substances List (DSL). The manufacture or import of a substance not on the DSL may be subject to notification under the New Substances Notification Regulations (Chemicals and Polymers) or the New Substances Notification Regulations (Organisms). Following notification, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada carry out a joint assessment process to determine whether there is a potential for adverse effects on the environment and human health. This substance was added to the DSL as an “Existing Substance” given that it meets the criteria set out in CEPA for substances that were in commerce in Canada between 1984 and 1986. |
| Recent publication(s): | Canada Gazette Part II, Vol. 128, No. 9, May 4, 1994, SOR/94-311 |
| Date published: | 1994-05-04 |