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Profile page Guide on Mandatory Reporting under Canada Consumer Product...
Under the Act, you – as industry stakeholders - are responsible for making sure the consumer products you manufacture, import, sell or advertise are safe. You are also... -
Health product advertising incidents
The table summarizes health product advertising incidents that Health Canada has been made aware of and addressed, or is currently assessing for next steps. This table will be... -
Previous nuclear incidents and accidents: Fukushima
On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake triggered a severe nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The accident culminated in... -
Mandatory reporting of serious adverse drug reactions and medical device...
The purpose of this guidance document is to provide hospitals with information that may be useful in achieving compliance with the federal regulatory requirement for hospitals... -
Notice of danger to human health or safety and risk mitigation for ski and...
Health Canada has assessed the hazards associated with the use of ski and snowboard helmets. These products may pose a risk of serious head injury when the user suffers an... -
Summary Safety Review - Trifecta Heart Valve - Assessing the Potential Risk...
After reviewing an article about the wearing out of the Trifecta heart valve 34 months after it was implanted in a patient, Health Canada carried out a safety review of related... -
A guide to the new disaggregated data questionnaire for drug submissions
Health Canada uses disaggregated data to analyze the safety and efficacy of health products. The collection and analysis of disaggregated data in clinical trials is key to... -
Guidance Document: Pre-market Evaluation of Hepatotoxicity in Health Products
Hepatotoxicity caused by exposure to a drug or non-infectious agent is injury or damage to the liver that may be associated with impaired liver function. This document is... -
Infographic: Protecting your indoor air from outdoor pollutants
When outdoor air quality is poor, Health Canada recommends that individuals, particularly children, the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions remain indoors as... -
Federal Contaminated Site Risk Assessment in Canada: Supplemental Guidance...
This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance for custodial departments. | This guidance document Federal Contaminated Site Risk Assessment in Canada: Supplemental... -
Human Health Risk Assessment for Biodiesel Production, Distribution and Use in Canada
The general approach employed is as comprehensive as the available information allows and is comparative in nature, i.e., the impacts of biodiesel blends are compared to those... -
Novel Food Information - Glabrous canary seed (Phalaris canariensis L.)
Health Canada has notified the Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan (CDCS) that it has no objection to the sale of glabrous (hairless) hull varieties of brown and... -
Draft technical document guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality -...
Canadians can be exposed to antimony via food, drinking water, air and consumer products. Exposure to antimony trioxide and antimony containing substances (11 inorganic... -
Our Health, Our Environment: A Snapshot of Environmental Health in Canada
Today it is widely recognized that human health is affected by changes to our environment and that these changes can have a positive or negative impact on our health.... -
Guidance for Evaluating Human Health Impacts in Environmental Assessment: Air Quality
This document provides generic guidance on predicting health risks of air quality in federal environmental assessments (EAs) of proposed major resource and infrastructure... -
Airborne Radionuclide Concentrations Dataset
The Airborne Radionuclide Concentrations (ARC) Dataset is a general dataset of airborne radionuclide concentrations analyzed at the Radiation Protection Bureau (RPB). The RPB is... -
Policy on Managing Health Risk Associated with the Consumption of Sprouted...
This policy on sprouted seeds and beans was developed following a health risk assessment (Health Canada, 2001, updated 2006). Health Canada's current opinion is that the... -
Traffic-related air pollution: An umbrella review-based human health risk...
The objective of this risk assessment is to evaluate the association of cancer with TRAP exposure in order to inform and support programs and policies designed to mitigate... -
Health impacts of traffic-related air pollution in Canada
A large body of scientific evidence has accumulated over the past 25 years attributing a wide range of adverse health effects to ambient (outdoor) air pollution exposure. These... -
Human Health Risk Assessment for Sulphur Dioxide: Executive Summary
Health Canada undertook a health risk assessment of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in order to update the available information on adverse effects of SO2 to human health, determine...