Carreau: Re: CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999 Proposed Residential Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for Benzene CELA writes to support the proposal by Health Canada to reduce the long-term guideline for indoor air quality for benzene to 0.6 µg/L. [...] CELA is in agreement with reducing the standard due to the documented health effects associated with long-term exposure to benzene in indoor air. [...] We also note that young children and their caregivers may spend longer periods of time in the home and exposed to the associated indoor air quality, for example, than school age children and people working outside of the home. [...] CELA also appreciates the practical advice provided in the Guidance and supported by the studies discussed in the white paper, as to how residents may manage the risks of benzene in indoor air quality, and reduce their exposures. [...] While many of the recommended measures to reduce risk of exposure to indoor sources of benzene are low-technology (for example, recommendations to avoid storage of gasoline and gasoline burning appliances, paints and solvents indoors or in attached garages), CELA predicts that this information is not yet well known or understood in the Canadian population.
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