Existing Substances Evaluation

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The Existing Substances Division represents the Department's expertise for ecological risk assessment of existing substances. Within Environment Canada, the Divison leads the Departmental program for assessing priority substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999) as well as other initiatives under CEPA 1999. These include categorization and screening of the Domestic Substances List (DSL) as well as Section 75, which involves exchanging information and reviewing decisions from other jurisdictions on specifically prohibited or substantially restricted substances. The Division is also involved in other federal, intergovernmental and international assessment initiatives including the Toxic Substances Management Policy (TSMP), and the chemicals program of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

What's New?

	Draft PSL2 Assessment Report (Aluminum Salts) (Public comment period - 2009/02/07 - 2009/04/08)

	Chemical Substances in Batch 8 of the Challenge (January 2009)

	Final Screening Assessment Reports for the Batch 2 Substances of the Challenge (January 2009)

	Draft Screening Assessment Reports for the Batch 4 Substances of the Challenge (January 2009)

	Chemical Substances in Batch 7 of the Challenge (August 2008)

	Final follow-up assessment report on chlorinated paraffins (August 2008)

	Draft Screening Assessment Reports for the Batch 3 Substances of the Challenge (August 2008)

	Final Screening Assessment Reports for the Batch 1 Substances of the Challenge (July 2008)

	Final Screening Assessment Report of 145 PBiT Substances (June 2008)

	Chemical Substances in Batch 6 of the Challenge (June 2008)

	Chemical Substances in Batch 5 of the Challenge (February 2008)

How to Reach Us:

Existing Substances Divison
Environment Canada
8^th Floor, Fontaine Building
200 Sacré-Cœur Blvd.
Gatineau, Québec K1A 0H3
Phone: 1-888-228-0530 (in Canada) / 1-819-956-9313
Fax: 1-819-953-4936
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Disclaimer: Although care has been taken to ensure that the information found on this website accurately reflects the requirements prescribed in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (1999), you are advised that, should any inconsistencies be found, the legal documents, printed in the Canada Gazette, will prevail.

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