Bioaccessibility of potentially harmful soil elements Cave,
Mark. 2012 Bioaccessibility of potentially harmful soil
elements. Environmental Scientist, 21 (3). 26-29.Before
downloading, please read NORA policies. Quantitative guidelines
for assessing risks from potentially harmful elements in soil
are associated with several scientific problems. There are
difficulties in establishing concentrations of contaminants
beyond which risks from exposure to these contaminants would be
unacceptable. This requires not only scientific (toxicological)
information on the health effects, but also an element of
judgement on what is unacceptable risk. In addition, soil is
only one of the sources of contaminant exposure, and its effect,
and the cost of dealing with it, needs to be kept in proportion
with the total exposure to contaminants from all sources.
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