| Title: |
Soil Generic Assessment Criteria for Human Health Risk Assessment
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2010 |
| Availability: |
January 2010
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| Author 1/Producer: |
CL:AIRE
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
AGS, EIC
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Professional / trade / industry associations, institutes or networks
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| Publisher: |
CL:AIRE
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| Publisher City: |
London, UK
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| ISBN: |
978-1-905046-20-1
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Risk assessment overview
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Tools and procedures
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| Short description: |
EXTRACT:
This report presents the results of a collaborative effort of risk assessors from 26 EIC and AGS member companies
to produce generic assessment criteria (GAC) for soils for human health risk assessment. The project involved the
collation and review of physico-chemical data, toxicological data and information on background exposure for 44
contaminants sometimes encountered on land affected by contamination in the UK and the derivation of GAC
for 351 of these using the CLEA model (v1.06). The GAC are intended to complement soil guideline values (SGV)
produced by the Environment Agency of England and Wales and the 2nd edition GAC produced by LQM and CIEH
(Nathanail et al, 2009). All three sets of assessment criteria have been derived in general accordance with the
Environment Agency of England and Wales Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment (CLEA) guidance and thus the
combined efforts of these three groups have resulted in a useful set of screening criteria for the assessment of risks
to human health from soil contamination for more than 120 potentially contaminative substances.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 24/02/2010
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