Protecting Public Health In Canada

Protecting public health is an important factor in every sector. The government of Canada protects the health of public concerning, the quality, safety and effectiveness of drugs, medical devices and pesticides. They ensure the safety of consumer products and substances at workplace, that also includes the nutrional quality of food and its safety, toxic material in environment, the water and air quality. To provide safe and effective medicine, pesticides, food etc. to Canadians, The Health Canada does risk assessment for each and every product before going into the hands of consumers. Risk assessment is done or is necessary to be done to reduce the risk that users might get injured by using a product also ensures the product is harmless or

Health Canada regulates major classes of science based products that is Drugs (Pharmaceutical), medical devices, pesticides, industrial chemicals, food, alcohol, first aid bandages, energy drinks, tetanus, vaccine, weed B Gon, cisplatin, insect repellant and many more. Most of the product whether it is Pharmaceutical, industrial chemical or pesticide or biotechnology product all of them possess some of the risk and are made from mixture of one another, following is the small example- In Pesticides. If we make use of any plant it is known as bio pesticide, its main motive is to protect the plant from insects its natural enemy. The Bacillis thurigiensis is a species of bacteria that produce a protein called “BT Cry Toxin”. The gene for this protein was found into corn where expression of the BT toxin kills the European corn borer, The EPA determined this doesn’t pose a risk to human because BT is not related to any known allergen or human toxin, it does not produce toxic effects when administered at high doses to animals, not stable in body (long term) also history of safe use of microbial products for

These ingredients are mixed and compressed into tablet by machine. ASSUMING, one day a contingent of aspirin consumer became ill with E.coli poisoning. This was because contamination was traced back to the aspirin manufacturing plant where the tablet machinery was not being sterilized prior to use.

Also, pre-market assessment is necessary because products are made using highly toxic materials, high dose of chemical but use of this toxic material is necessary too so as to save lives, or grow the crop, like in cancer patient, the drugs/medication used in chemotherapy are highly toxic, but these drugs can save life. Same in case of pesticides, pesticides are in high doses are toxic, but they are needed to protect crop from insect and grow the crop.
Risk assessment of science based products in Canada, To sale any Product which is science based has to undergo evaluation process set by federal