Environmental Contaminants

• Environmental Radiation
• Existing Substances
• Human Biomonitoring
• New Substances
• Vulnerable Populations

Environmental Radiation

Consultation

• Consultation on Canadian Guidelines for the Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM)

Technical Reports and Publications

• Generic Criteria and Operational Interventions Levels for Nuclear Emergency Planning and Response (2018)
• Canadian Guidelines for the Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials

Radon

• Radon: A Guide for Canadian Homeowners

Existing Substances

• Code of Practice for a Recommended Concentration of 2-(2-Methoxyethoxy) Ethanol (DEGME) in Surface Coating Materials Available to Consumers in Canada
• Code of Practice for 2-Butanone, oxime (Butanone oxime) Associated with the Interior Application of Consumer Alkyd Paint and Coating Products
  • Response to Comments on Proposed Code of Practice for 2-Butanone, oxime (Butanone oxime)
• Mercury - Your Health and the Environment

Children and the Health Risk Assessment of Existing Substances

• Children and the Health Risk Assessment of Existing Substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Chrysotile Asbestos Expert Panel

To obtain an electronic copy of the Chrysotile Asbestos Expert Panel Report (1098 K), please contact panel@hc-sc.gc.ca.

Domestic Substances List Categorization

• A Study to Determine Currency of DSL Quantity Data for Use in Categorization of DSL Substances - August 2001
• Proposed Integrated Framework for the Health-related Components of Categorization of the Domestic Substances List under CEPA 1999

Priority Substances Assessment Program

• Health-Based Guidance Values for Substances on the Second Priority Substances List
• Health-Based Tolerable Daily Intakes/Concentrations and Tumorigenic Doses/Concentrations for Priority Substances
• Human Health Risk Assessment for Priority Substances
• First Priority Substances List (PSL1) Assessments
• Second Priority Substances List (PSL2) Assessments

Screening Assessment Reports

• Final Human Health State of the Science Report on Lead
• Lead Risk Management Strategy for Lead
• Summary of Overarching Public Comments received on the draft Human Health State of the Science Report on Lead and the Proposed Risk Management Strategy for Lead
• Screening Health Assessment of Existing Substances Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
• State of the Science Report for a Screening Health Assessment - Quinoline
• State of the Science Report for a Screening Health Assessment - Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)
• State of the Science Report for Perfluorooctane Sulfonate, Its Salts and Its Precursors that Contain the C₈F₁₇SO₂ or C₈F₁₇SO₃ Moiety

Human Biomonitoring

• Canadian biomonitoring dashboard
• Biomonitoring fact sheets
• Biomonitoring Content Summary for the Canadian Health Measures Survey
• Sixth Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2021)
• Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Pooled Samples (2020)
• Fifth Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2019)
• Fourth Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2017)
• Third Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2015)
• Second Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2013)
• Report on Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals in Canada (2010)

New Substances

• Determination of "Toxic" for the Purposes of the New Substances Provisions (chemicals and polymers) under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act - Human Health Considerations

Vulnerable Populations

• National Strategic Framework on Children's Environmental Health
• Our Health, Our Environment: A Snapshot of Environmental Health in Canada - 2012
• Human Health Risk Assessment for Priority Substances

Fact Sheets

• Ethylbenzene and Health
• Mercury and Health
• Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Health
• Pesticides and Health