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Canadians spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. While the first step to ensure good indoor air quality (IAQ) is …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Ventilation indoor environment time indoors good indoor air-quality IAQ reduce indoor pollution reduces pollutant moisture levels poor occupant comfort adverse health effects

Outdoor air pollution comes from a variety of sources, and even at low levels, has an impact on human health. …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Outdoor air pollution air-pollution and health overview impact human health disease increased hospitalizations premature death

Health effects from air pollution can depend on the source.

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Outdoor air pollution air-pollution and health health effects the source source of air-pollution

Follow these tips to reduce your risk of health effects from air pollution.

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Outdoor air pollution air-pollution and health minimizing the effects follow tips reduce your risk health-effects and air-pollution

Traffic is a major source of air pollution especially in urban areas. Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is a mixture of …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Traffic source of air-pollution urban areas Traffic-related air-pollution TRAP gases particles chemicals from cars buses trucks emissions from exhaust evaporation of fuel ...

Health Canada completed the Human Health Risk Assessment for Diesel Exhaust, a comprehensive review and analysis of the potential adverse …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Human Health Health Risk Assessment diesel exhaust diesel exhaust emissions adverse health effects diesel fuel use on-road-vehicles off-road-vehicles general population exposures

Health Canada completed the Human Health Risk Assessment for Gasoline Exhaust, a comprehensive review and analysis of the potential adverse …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Human Health Health Risk Assessment gasoline exhaust gasoline exhaust emission vehicle emissions adverse health effects gasoline fuel use on-road vehicles off-road vehicles

The general approach employed is as comprehensive as the available information allows and is comparative in nature, i.e., the impacts …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Human Health Health Risk Assessment Biodiesel Production Biodiesel Distribution Biodiesel Use impacts of biodiesel-blends impact of biodiesel-use compared ultra low-sulphur diesel ULSD risks and benefits mobile sector emissions ...

This review is intended to support the development of Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) for NO2; these standards are …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Human Health Health Risk Assessment Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 Canadian Ambient-Air-Quality Standards CAAQS standards federal-provincial-territorial FPT FPT Air-Quality-Management System

The Air Quality Assessment Section of Health Canada undertook a health risk assessment of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in order to …

Last Updated: May 31, 2024
Date Published: May 31, 2024
Publisher: Health Canada
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Keywords: Human Health Health Risk Assessment Sulphur Dioxide SO2 adverse effects of SO2 Air-Quality Assessment Section Canadian SO2 exposure-levels revision development Canadian ambient-air-quality standards