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Document ID ca-gcdwqgtd-2008-01-07-6 Title Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Arsenic URL https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/healthy-living/guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-guideline-technical-document-arsenic/page-7-guidelines-canadian-drinking-water-quality-guideline-technical-document-arsenic.html Jurisdiction /ca Subdomain(s) Drinking water, Analytical methods Language en Status completed Analyzed at 2026-03-17 15:37:01.967578+00:00 Relevance Defines approved analytical methods and detection limits for arsenic monitoring.

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Req ID Category Intent Legal Status Name Subdomain(s) Limit Type Limit Value Context Conditions Confidence
#P001chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic Detection Limit - Gaseous Hydride Formation (GHAA)drinking waterunknown0.001 mg/LAtomic absorption via gaseous hydride formation (GHAA) is considered to be the most common method for the determination of arsenic in waterhigh
#P002chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS)drinking waterunknown1.4 µg/LReference Method 200.8 (EPA)Interferences from argon-chloride in high-chloride sampleshigh
#P003chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - ICP-MS with selective-ion monitoringdrinking waterunknown0.1 µg/LReference Method: (modification)high
#P004chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Stabilized temperature platform graphite furnace atomic absorption (STP-GFAA)drinking waterunknown0.5 µg/LReference Method 200.9 (EPA)high
#P005chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA) - SMdrinking waterunknown1 µg/LReference Method 3113B (SM)high
#P006chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA) - ASTMdrinking waterunknown5 µg/LReference Method D-2972-93C (ASTM)high
#P007chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Gaseous hydride atomic absorption (GHAA) - SMdrinking waterunknown0.5 µg/LReference Method 3114B (SM)high
#P008chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic MDL - Gaseous hydride atomic absorption (GHAA) - ASTMdrinking waterunknown1 µg/LReference Method D-2972-93B (ASTM)high
#P009chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic Practical Quantitation Limit (PQL)drinking waterrequirement0.003 mg/LThe practical quantitation limit (PQL) for all EPA-approved methodsBased on the capability of laboratories to measure arsenic within reasonable limits of precision and accuracyhigh
#P010chemicalreportingguidanceArsenic Method Detection Limit - EPA Method 1632drinking waterunknown0.002 µg/LEPA Method 1632 is a GHAA method that provides for direct analysis of drinking water and for speciation of arsenicMethod requires a high degree of skillhigh

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