Public Health Agency of Canada

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    Select findings on antimicrobial use and resistance

    The complex battle against antimicrobial resistance. Highlights of one important story that CIPARS is following.
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    Volume 38 · Number 11 · November 2018 - Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice

    Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice(the HPCDP Journal) is the monthly, online scientific journal of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada.The journal publishes articles on disease...
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    Evaluation of the Public Health Agency of Canada's Travel Health and Border Health Security Activities 2009-2010 to 2015-2016

    This evaluation covered the period from April 1, 2009 to August 31, 2014 and included all the activities undertaken by the Travel and Migration Health Division (TMHD) and those undertaken by the Office of Border Health Services (OBHS). The evaluation was undertaken in fulfillment of the Treasury...
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    Centre for Biosecurity Annual Report 2016-2017

    This report tells the story of how the Centre took action to ensure a successful transition to the new regulatory regime by managing change, promoting compliance among regulated parties, and influencing global biosafety and biosecurity regulatory efforts leading up to and throughout the ensuing...
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    Vol 39, No 1, January 2019, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada

    Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice(the HPCDP Journal) is the monthly, online scientific journal of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada.The journal publishes articles on disease...
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    Canadian Biosafety Guideline - Containment Level 1: Physical Design and Operational Practices

    This guideline describes the general recommendations and considerations for basic laboratory design and the safe handling of RG1 biological material; these recommended practices are risk-and evidence-based. The physical design features and operational practices for CL1 zones described in this...
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    Canadian Biosafety Guideline: Developing a Comprehensive Biosecurity Plan

    "The Canadian Biosafety Guidelines have been developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) as an ongoing series of biosafety and biosecurity themed guidance documents. In Canada, most facilities where human and terrestrial animal pathogens...
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    Canadian Biosafety Guideline Pathogen Risk Assessment

    In Canada, facilities where Risk Group 2, 3, and 4 human pathogens or toxins are handled and stored are regulated by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) under the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act (HPTA) and the Human Pathogens and Toxins Regulations (HPTR). The importation of animal...
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    Canadian Biosafety Guideline - Veterinary Practices: Physical Design and Operational Practices for Diagnostic Activities

    In Canada, facilities where Risk Group 2, 3, and 4 human pathogens or toxins are handled and stored are regulated by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) under the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act (HPTA) and the Human Pathogens and Toxins Regulations (HPTR). The importation of animal...
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    Canadian Biosafety Handbook, Second Edition

    The biosafety handbook on safe and secure handling of pathogens and toxins in Canada.
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    Notification and Reporting Under the HPTA and HPTR

    This Guideline provides comprehensive guidance on how to complete and submit a notification report and, where exposure or laboratory acquired infections/intoxications (LAIs) is concerned, a subsequent follow-up report to the Public Health Agency of Canada in accordance with requirements in the...
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    Local Risk Assessment

    The Local Risk Assessment guideline describes best practices for conducting a local risk assessment (LRA) in an organization where human or animal pathogens, toxins, or other regulated infectious material are handled or stored.
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    Conducting a biosecurity risk assessment

    This guideline describes best practices for conducting a biosecurity risk assessment in an organization where human or animal pathogens, toxins, or other regulated infectious material are handled or stored. The biosecurity risks associated with the handling and storing of pathogens and toxins can...
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    Canadian Biosafety Standard (CBS) Second Edition

    Canada’s Canadian Biosafety Standard (CBS), 2nd Edition, 2015, is a harmonized national standard for the handling or storing of human and terrestrial animal pathogens and toxins in Canada.
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