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Biological Sciences - Dr. Wing Sung
Meet Dr. Wing Sung and discover a career in which scientists use little proteins to solve big problems, such as treating diseases, reducing chlorine use in the pulp and paper industry and improving the quality of hemp fibre.
Aluminum and Human Health
Looks at the ways in which we are exposed to aluminum, the health risks, and issues related to aluminum's presence in food and drinking water.
Arsenic in Drinking Water
This site looks at health effects and how to test for arsenic levels in your water.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in North America
Access information on BSE, including news releases, disease information and policies and procedures to contain this disease.
Canada - A Minimal BSE Risk Country
Canada can justifiably be considered as a minimal risk country for BSE based on the primary criteria that there has been less than one in a million cases of BSE in each of the last four consecutive 12-month periods within the cattle population over 24 months of age.
Canadian Health Portal - Environmental Health
Addressing air quality, water quality, soil contamination affecting food supply, toxic management, use of pesticides and radiation-emitting devices, as well as a wide range of workplace health and safety issues.
Climate Change and Health
Discover how scientists are working to try to understand how climate change could impact our health. Access related resources such as publications and reports.
Effects of Lead and Human Health
Information dealing with the effects of lead in the environment - in food, in water, and in the air.
Environmental and Workplace Health
Addressing air quality, water quality, soil contamination affecting food supply, toxic management, use of pesticides and radiation-emitting devices, as well as a wide range of workplace health and safety issues.
Fall Out
Learn about fall-out radiation in Canada’s North and how it can travel through the food chain to humans (text and video).
Guidelines on Risk of Frostbite
Learn how research into wind chill effects has determined precisely how long it takes for exposed skin to freeze in cold winter weather.
Health Policy Research Bulletin - Health and the Environment - Critical Pathways
This issue explores the range of research and evidence required to effectively assess and manage environmental health risks.
Mercury and the Environment
Facts about mercury, its properties, and the impact it has on the environment and human health.
Radiation Protection Bureau
Find information about a program responsible for the investigation, communication and reduction of health risks to Canadians from exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
Safe Environments Programme
Information about environmental health issues such as radiation, contaminants, health sciences, and health impacts.
Water Quality and Health Bureau
Lists publications on water quality and your health.
West Nile Virus
Link to information on West Nile virus, which mosquitoes transmit after becoming infected by feeding on the blood of birds carrying the virus.