Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Nitrate and Nitrite

Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Nitrate and Nitrite is an open dataset from Health Canada with 2 files (HTML); catalogue record updated 2021-11-30. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Nitrate and nitrite are widespread in the environment. They are naturally produced by the oxidation of nitrogen by microorganisms and, to a lesser extent, by lightning. The maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for nitrate in drinking water is 45 mg/L. This is equivalent to 10 mg/L measured as nitrate-nitrogen. The MAC for nitrite in drinking water is 3 mg/L. This is equivalent to 1 mg/L measured as nitrite-nitrogen.

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Health Canada

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2021-11-30