Assessment of the Canadian DSL

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) requires thar EC review the entire Canadian chemical inventory, the Domestic Substances list (DSL), for the purpose of identifying those substances which are toxic pursuant to CEPA. This analysis requires EC to determine which chemicals on the DSL are persistent and either bioaccumulative or inherently toxic. 

Under CEPA, a substance is toxic if it is entering or may enter the environment in a quantity of concentration or under conditions  

having or that may have an immediate or long-term harmful effect on the einvironment  

constituting or that may constitute a danger to the environment on which life depends or 

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