43When statements about chemical products can be made or reported

43 When statements about chemical products can be made or reported

(1) For the purposes of subsection 89(3) of the Code, a person is not prevented from making or reporting a statement about a chemical product if the statement is not made for the purpose of promoting the product and is one of the following kinds of statement: (a) a statement made: (i) in a scientific paper or other scientific literature, or in a scientific report or presentation; or (ii) at a conference or seminar, or in an address, meeting or discussion, concerning chemical products; being a statement based on data published in a reputable, refereed scientific journal or of a standard publishable in such a journal; (b) a statement made on radio or television or in a newspaper, journal or newsletter, as fair comment on any material: (i) published for the purposes of a conference or seminar; and (ii) based on data referred to in paragraph (a). (2) Nothing in subregulation (1) is taken to permit a statement that would, apart from that subregulation, contravene section 84 of the Code.