Here, There and Everywhere: Environmental Chemicals and Contaminants

Every day, we are exposed to chemicals and pollutants - in our air, food and water. There are chemical substances in the products we use at work, at home and at play. While chemicals play an essential role in our daily lives, some chemical substances can negatively affect our health and the environment if poorly managed.

Hosts Megan Beahen and Alex Newman sit down with Tyler Pollock, PhD, Scientist with the Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau at Health Canada, to discuss lesser-known facts about environmental chemicals and contaminants.

They chat about the chemicals that surround us, potential exposures, and how this all comes into play in our day-to-day lives.

About the Canadian Biomonitoring Dashboard: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/biomonitoring/about.html

Risk assessment of chemical substances: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/chemical-substances/canada-approach-chemicals/risk-assessment.html

Environmental Contaminants: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/environmental-contaminants.html

Exposure and health effects of chemicals: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-effects-chemical-exposure.html

Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/environmental-workplace-health/environmental-contaminants/human-biomonitoring-environmental-chemicals.html

Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS): https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/5071

MIREC - A research study on early life exposure to environmental chemicals: https://www.mirec-canada.ca/en/

Northern Contaminants Program: https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/northern-contaminants-program