| Title: |
Metals Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance - MERAG
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> report
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2007 |
| Author 1/Producer: |
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - Defra
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
International Council on Mining and Metals, Eurometaux, EURAS
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Publisher: |
Defra
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| Publisher City: |
London, UK
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| Report / download web link (=direct link): |
http://www.icmm.com/uploads/1538MERAG.pdf
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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| Size: (e.g. 20mb) |
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Heavy metals
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Sources
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Tools and procedures
Diffuse pollution-->Processes
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Sediments
Soil-->Soil Overview
Soil-->Soil quality
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
EXTRACT: Minerals and metals are naturally occurring
substances that are present in a variety of forms
(metal species). Understanding the hazards and
risks posed by these chemicals, and managing
these adequately, have become key aspects of
chemicals management policies that are aligned
with the principles of sustainable development.
Models and methodologies for evaluating hazards,
setting priorities, establishing environmental
quality criteria and assessing risks are currently
developed and used in several jurisdictions,
including the European Union, the United States
and Canada. However, because the majority of the
compounds assessed are organic substances
rather than inorganic metals, the various
methodologies and guidance documents provided
for performing these assessments are lacking in
detail on how to account for metal-specific
attributes. Questions related to the specific impact
of metals on the environment and on human health
and the need to establish ready and accessible
metal-specific tools and data sets in order to make
informed, science-based decisions have – to an
increasing extent – been raised by representatives
of local, regional, national and international
administrations, as well as by members of nongovernmental
organizations, private companies
and associations.
It was deemed
appropriate to develop a guidance document aimed
at providing the regulatory community at the
regional and international level with the proper
scientific and regulatory guidance on the most
advanced status of scientific concepts for metals.
This Metals Environmental Risk Assessment
Guidance therefore consolidates existing experience
and recent progress made with environmental risk
assessment methods, concepts and methodologies
used in chemicals management programs and
environmental quality standard setting (soil, water,
sediments) for metals.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 10/04/2007
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