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The following policy document is intended to provide guidance and information to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) personnel and decision-makers and to the public. This document describes the processes used by PMRA scientists, in dietary risk assessments (DRA), to quantify the level of food residue exposures to consumers of all ages.

This document provides an overview of the policy of Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency in estimating the concentration of pesticides in potential drinking water sources. These estimates are incorporated into aggregate exposure assessments as part of the process of assessing the potential impact of pesticide use on the health of Canadians.

This document describes the approach that the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) will use for identifying pesticides that cause common toxic effects by common mechanisms of toxicity.

The following document is a policy/guidance document that reflects the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) recent dietary risk assessment science policy/guidance paper entitled, Choosing a Percentile of Acute Dietary Exposure as a Threshold of Regulatory Concern (March 16, 2000).

This Regulatory Directive outlines Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) policy on the regulation of formulants contained in pest control products (Part I). It also provides practical guidance to applicants and registrants on implementation of the Formulants Policy (Part II).

This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance for custodial departments.

This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance for custodial departments of federal contaminated sites.

This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance to custodians of federal contaminated sites.

This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance for federal departments.

This guidance document was prepared to provide guidance for federal departments.