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The information is extracted from an internal report to the Climate Change and Health Office, Safe Environments Program, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, January 2001.
Acknowledgements: The author acknowledges the help of Dieter Riedel in the preparation of this manuscript, and thanks CCHO for supporting this work.
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