Francois Breton, M.Sc.

Scientific Evaluator

My role consists of conducting scientific evaluation of the data necessary to approve drugs developed for use by Canadians.

Health Canada

101 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, Ontario

Professional activities / interests

-drug evaluation

Education and awards

B.Sc. (Hons.) Biochemistry, Concordia University, 2004

M.Sc. Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 2010

Key publications

Publications

Tugulea, Anca-Maria, et al. "The influence of precursors and treatment process on the formation of Iodo-THMs in Canadian drinking water" Water Research 130 (2018): 215-223.

Rawn, Dorothea FK, et al. "Dioxins/furans and PCBs in Canadian human milk: 2008-2011" Science of The Total Environment 595 (2017): 269-278.

Rawn, Dorothea FK, et al. "A method for the analysis of multiple novel halogenated flame retardants in cow’s milk." Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A 33.7 (2016): 1207-1218.

Poon, Shirley, et al. "Hair as a biomarker of systemic exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers." Environmental science & technology 48.24 (2014): 14650-14658.

Breton, François, et al. "Silicate-entrapped porous coatings for preparing high-efficiency solid-phase microextraction sorbents." Analytica chimica acta 669.1 (2010): 39-44.

Zhang, Xu, et al. "Development of the space-resolved solid-phase microextraction technique and its application to biological matrices." Analytical chemistry 81.17 (2009): 7349-7356.

Queiroz, Maria Eugênia C., et al. "Immunoaffinity in-tube solid phase microextraction coupled with liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry for analysis of fluoxetine in serum samples." Journal of Chromatography A 1174.1 (2007): 72-77.

Thesis

Francois Breton (2009). Development of novel spme coatings and high-throughput automation of sample preparation for pharmaceutical and clinical samples. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4888