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Health Canada has completed a risk assessment evaluating the potential risks and benefits to the health of Canadians from the use of E10, a formulation of gasoline containing 10% ethanol per volume. E10 is the most common proportion for ethanol-blended fuel and is considered usable in gasoline...

Health Canada is preparing the Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action report. This report includes a scientific assessment of how climate change affects human health.

Benzene is a recognized human carcinogen and, as such, a component in gasoline of particular concern. The objective of this assessment is to estimate the contribution of benzene emissions to inhalation exposures for communities residing in proximity to gasoline stations.

Benzene has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen ("carcinogenic to humans") by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC 2012, 2018) and as carcinogenic to humans by the Government of Canada (Canada 1993). Benzene was added to the List of Toxic Substances in Schedule 1 of CEPA 1999...

This report on progress contributes to an integrated, whole-of-government view of activities supporting environmental sustainability and helps to make environmental decision-making more transparent and accountable to Parliament. This report details Health Canada's individual departmental actions...

Access documents on the health risks of indoor air contaminants. Learn how to reduce exposure to these contaminants in residential and non-residential spaces.

Canadians spend approximately 90% of their time indoors and are exposed to a large number of indoor air contaminants. In many cases, these indoor air contaminants are known to cause or exacerbate health effects, such as asthma, allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other...

Ozone can cause a variety of symptoms in both healthy people and people with respiratory problems, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Health symptoms include: coughing, chest discomfort, reduced lung function, shortness of breath, and irritation of the eyes, nose and...

Toluene is one of a diverse, group of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can be released as a gas into indoor air at room temperatures. The health effects of toluene depend on the level to which you are exposed, for how long you are exposed, and your own personal...

Adaptation Bulletin #1/ The Urban Heat Island Effect: Causes, Health Impacts and Mitigation Strategies.

Adaptation Bulletin #2/ Communicating the Health Risks of Extreme Heat Events: Toolkit for Public Health and Emergency Management Officials.

Adaptation Bulletin - #3/ Understanding Community Resilience to Extreme Heat Through Table-top Exercises

Adaptation Bulletin - #4/ Developing Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities

Adaptation Bulletin - #5/ North American Working Group on Climate Change and Human Health

Unfortunately, the text-based data extract is no longer accessible through the Natural and Non-prescription Health Products (NNHPD) website. We want to underline that the support for the CSV (text) extract formats has been dropped by our program area and the links to CSV files on the page will be...

Health Canada reviewed the potential risk of liver injury with Pradaxa after receiving reports of severe liver injury from the manufacturer. The manufacturer was asked to provide all available data on Pradaxa and the risk of liver injury.

Health Canada carried out a safety review to look at the potential risk of seizures in patients taking finasteride after cases of seizures were published in the WHO Pharmaceuticals NewsletterFootnotea.

This safety review was carried out to look at new information in the scientific literature that has emerged since the completion of a previous review in 2012 about the risk of Clostridium difficile infection with proton pump inhibitor use. Clostridium difficile infection ranges from mild diarrhea...

Health Canada reviewed the potential risk of a type of skin reaction known as subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus(SCLE) with the use of PPIs after a published article that found these drugs may contribute to the reaction.

Health Canada reviewed this issue because a published study found a link between SSRI exposure during pregnancy and an increased risk of autism in children. Autism is a developmental disability with lifelong impact. It affects a child's ability to communicate and interact with others.