Hi Kristiaan, If you look at 60950, you are only required to mark your products in a language which is acceptable in the country which it is being sold. In the national deviations there are some specific countries, such as Germany, who specify that safety instructions be in their particular country.
To get to the specifics of your question. Canada has two official languages, English and Canadian French and either is acceptable. If we marked our product in french only, it would not be acceptable in the US, so because of the limited space on labels, we generally mark our North American products in English only on the label and have the other languges (English, French and Spanish)in the user guide. We do it purely for marketing reasons (I'm not going to bore you with the details of the french language debate here in Canada). In your scenario, a product that has a cULus marking with markings in English only is legal in both countries. Regards Doug Beckwith Carpentier Kristiaan <carpenti...@thmulti.com>@majordomo.ieee.org on 08/01/2002 05:37:07 AM Please respond to Carpentier Kristiaan <carpenti...@thmulti.com> Sent by: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org cc: Subject: Marking Languages for Canada Hello group, A product from manufacturer X is delivered with a (direct plug-in) power supply from mftr Y to customers in Canada. Regarding the power supply, it is UL approved + UL listed and has the UL marking with C and US. The warning marking on the power supply is only in english. Question: Is it required that the marking is also in french (en francais) when the product is sold in Canada? If YES, is there any reason why the marking is not in both languages if there is an approval for US+Canada? Thanks for your answers. Kris Carpentier ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
