Human health risk assessment for gasoline exhaust / prepared by Fuels Assessment Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada.: H144-52/2017E-PDF

“This report is a comprehensive review and analysis of the potential adverse health effects associated with gasoline fuel use in Canada. Two distinct approaches are used. Part A provides an evaluation of scientific studies that have examined the health effects associated with exposure to gasoline engine exhaust (GE) as a mixture. Studies on the health effects of individual GE constituents, such as PM2.5 and benzene, were not considered, as these substances have been extensively reviewed by Health Canada elsewhere. Part B provides a quantitative assessment of the contribution of on-road and off-road gasoline mobile source emissions to individual air pollutant concentrations in Canada and the population health impacts associated with that incremental contribution. The health impact analysis in Part B, which is based on well-established quantitative estimates of risk of adverse health impacts associated with incremental changes in air concentrations of individual pollutants, is complementary to the traditional risk assessment approach presented in Part A”--Executive summary, p. x.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Health Canada.
Canada. Water and Air Quality Bureau. Fuels Assessment Section.
Title Human health risk assessment for gasoline exhaust / prepared by Fuels Assessment Section, Water and Air Quality Bureau, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada.
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Évaluation des risques pour la santé humaine des gaz d'échappement des moteurs à essence.
"November 2017."
Authors: Nick Charman ... [et al.]. Cf. P. 4.
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Health Canada, 2017.
Author / Contributor Charman, Nick.
Description xii, 86 p. : col. maps
ISBN 978-0-660-23750-3
Catalogue number
  • H144-52/2017E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number 170279
Subject terms Gasoline
Atmospheric emissions
Health impact
Risk management
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