Alain Leblanc (toxicologist from the Direction de la toxicologie humaine, INSPQ) who assisted in the planning of the project and who supervised the laboratory analyses and helped in the interpretation of the results. [...] To address the Oujé-Bougoumou community's needs, the ministry of Health and Social Services mandated the Quebec National Institute of Public Health to conduct a study in order to characterize the possible exposure of the Cree community of Oujé-Bougoumou to environmental toxic elements. [...] This report presents the data of the project conducted during the autumn of 2002 in the Cree communities of Oujé-Bougoumou and Nemaska. [...] INSPQ - CHUQ/CHUL - Université McMaster - CCSSSBJ 1 Exposure and Preliminary Health Assessments of the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree Population to Mine Tailings Residues - Report of the Survey The health study was conducted under the co-direction of the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay (CBHSSJB) and the Quebec National Public Health Institute (INSPQ-CHUQ) through a mandate received from [...] The recruitment and participation details are summarized in Table 4. 3.2 ETHICS AND CONFIDENTIALITY The research project, information sheets and age-specific informed consent forms (see Appendix 2) were submitted and approved by the Ethics Committees of the Faculty of Medicine, Laval University (Quebec, Canada), and the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay; the McMaster University.