Bill Huzar, immediate past president of the Consumers Council of Canada, has been named vice-chair of the Consumer and Public Interest Committee (CPIC) of the Standards Council of Canada.

The 17-member CPIC looks at issues related to consumers and the public interest, including items such as health, safety and the environment.

CPIC provides policy advice and strategic recommendations to the Standards Council for advancing consumer and public interest on matters related to standardization, develops short, medium and long-range strategies for maintaining and enhancing consumer and public interest involvement in standardization, identifies and monitors existing and emerging issues in standardization where consumer and public interest input is needed, provide advice on promoting consumer and public interest in standardization, provides effective CPIC representation on other Advisory Committees of the Standards Council as appropriate, and provides policy advice on ISO/COPOLCO matters.

Its member ship includes 4 consumer representatives, 2 representatives of environmental interests, 1 labour representative, 2 representatives from academia, 2 federal government representatives, 1 occupational health and safety representative, representatives of 4 standards development organizations (SDO) and consumer professionals representatives and one representative from industry.