Leaching tests: useful tools for the risk assessment of contaminated sediments
Centioli, D.; Comans, R.N.J.; Gaudino, S.; Galas, C.; Belli, M.
Annali Dell'istituto Superiore di Sanita 44(3): 252-257
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-2571 PMID: 18946164 Document Number: 620742
In recent years, the importance of trace metal mobile fractions rather than total contents in environmental matrices is increasing in risk assessment evaluation of contaminated sites. In this study, different leaching/extraction tests, aimed at the measurements of mobile fractions of trace metals and standardized at the European Committee for Standardization for the characterization of waste, were compared with those adopted by the Italian legislation for soils.