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This document explains the approaches for assessing the risk posed by soil contaminated with the genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
This report (RCE-2) provides advice on the designation of radioactively contaminated land in response to proposals from Defra.
Recommendations for sampling and analysis for aflatoxin contamination in compound products containing nuts.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Guidance on the valuation of hereditaments built on or affected by contaminated land and list maintenance matters flowing from this.
Describes potential sources of contamination by location within the analysis chain; sampling, storage, handling, instrumental analysis
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
Provides a literature review of hydrogeological and geochemical parameters that are often measured in laboratory analyses and then extrapolated to field scale.
A review of biological indicators of pesticide contamination in freshwater environments.
Report provides guidance to Environment Agency staff on the assessment and interrogation of analytical fate and transport models of subsurface processes.
Batches of Legency Remedies Pvt Ltd irrigation, inhalation and eye wash saline products manufactured between April and November 2023 are being recalled due to potential microbiological contamination.
The purpose of this document is to provide a methodology for qualitative risk assessment (QLRA) of land contamination.
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other government bodies on matters concerning the toxicity...
This guidance is intended to explain how local authorities should implement the regime on contaminated land.
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