Health committee  In response to your question about extrapolating or doing a cumulative assessment on interactions with other chemicals, and so on, this is certainly why we sometimes need to talk to our colleagues in the agency. It's a field that is very complicated. But one other thing we do,

Health committee  In response to your first question about the monitoring in the human exposure scenario, Health Canada does participate in the biomonitoring and surveillance studies. As a matter of fact, the governmental initiative on the chemical management plan does allow us to do that biomonit

Health committee  Thank you for the question. When we use the animal models, in a lot of cases, to do what we call hazard identification, it's basically an internationally recognized standard, as I mentioned earlier. There are specific guidelines and interpretations that are internationally recog

Health committee  Thank you for the question. This gives me the opportunity to try to explain something in a more condensed manner. It is a very complicated issue, so I will try to explain that quickly. In doing a dietary risk assessment, as I mentioned in my presentation, there are usually two m

Health committee  Mr. Chairman, the scientific approach we use to protect human health has two main components; one identifies potential health effects and the other identifies exposure, of specific interest today, through the ingestion of pesticide residues on food. Together these two components