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Article: Land contamination -- Assessing the risks to human health.
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- March 14, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2002-UK Government: Land contamination -- Assessing the risks to human health (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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A new model launched today will provide, for the first time, a scientifically-based framework for the assessment of risks to human health from land contamination. The contaminated land exposure assessment (CLEA) model, and four supporting reports, are being published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Environment Agency. They are the result of ten years research that has involved close collaboration with the Department of Health, the Food Standards Agency and the ...