Human Health Risk Assessment for Priority Substances

1994
ISBN: 0-662-22126-5
Cat. No.: En40-215/41E

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Table of Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Database for Assessment of "Toxic" under paragraph 11(c) of CEPA
  • 2.1 Exposure
  • 2.2 Effects
• 3.0 Approaches for the Assessment of "Toxic" under paragraph 11(c) of CEPA -Single Substances
  • 3.1 Assessment of Population Exposure
  • 3.2 Assessment of Effects
    • 3.2.1 "Non-Threshold Toxicants"
    • 3.2.2 "Threshold Toxicants"
    • 3.2.3 "Possible Non-Threshold Toxicants"
• 4.0 Approaches for the Assessment of "Toxic" under paragraph 11(c) of CEPA -Simple Mixtures
  • 4.1 Mixture-Based Approach
  • 4.2 Component-Based Approach
• Appendix A - Reference Values for Assessing Total Daily Intake of Priority Substances by the General Population in Canada
  • 1.0 Age
  • 2.0 Body Weights
  • 3.0 Inhalation of Indoor and Outdoor Air
  • 4.0 Consumption of Drinking Water
  • 5.0 Consumption of Food
  • 6.0 Ingestion of Soil
  • 7.0 Consumer Products
  • References
• Appendix B - Criteria for Classification of Carcinogenicity
• Appendix C - Criteria for Classification of Mutagenicity in Germ Cells
• Appendix D - Definitions
• Appendix E - Reference Values for Intakes and Body Weights of Laboratory Animals
• References