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A study to review existing knowledge on background levels of contaminants in Scottish soils.
This report details the work undertaken to populate indicators for chemical and radiological land contamination for England and Wales.
This guidance and information is aimed at helping readers understand the regime and regulation of land affected by radioactivity.
How to control and avoid contamination at incident scenes involving DNA evidence recovery and analysis.
Reports showing progress on dealing with contaminated land in England and Wales.
This guidance is intended to explain how local authorities should implement the regime on contaminated land.
Protocol for forensic science providers and practitioners covers the management and use of staff elimination DNA databases.
Guidance on how to minimize the risk of DNA contamination in settings used routinely for sexual assault examinations, and police custody.
Provides a literature review of hydrogeological and geochemical parameters that are often measured in laboratory analyses and then extrapolated to field scale.
These reports (HPA-RPD-040 and HPA-RPD-041) concern incidents involving radionuclides leading to contamination of the drinking water supply.
Literature review on water quality standards and microbiological contamination
How to assess and manage the risks from land contamination.
Report on field testing of various approaches to biomonitoring.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can do a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soils and groundwater.
Wet line contamination involves the cross contamination of road fuel with rebated fuels, which will either be red diesel or kerosene.
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