PD CR 13455:1999
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Soil improvers and growing media. Guidelines for the safety of users, the environment and plants
Hardcopy , PDF
English
11-15-1999
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Terms and Definitions
2.1 Soil improver
2.2 Growing media
2.3 Harm
2.4 Hazard
2.5 Risk
2.6 Contaminant
2.7 Pollutant
2.8 Potentially toxic element
2.9 User
2.10 Intended use
2.11 Reasonably foreseeable misuse
2.12 Safety
3 Description of Hazards and Products
4 Product Safety Assessment
4.1 Fire
4.2 Dust explosion
4.3 Potentially Toxic Elements
4.4 Organic contaminants
4.5 Mineral constituents
4.6 Biological hazards, pathogens to humans
and animals;
microbial by-products and allergens
4.7 Traumatic hazard
4.8 Dust
4.9 Radiation
4.10 Physicochemical
4.11 Seeds and propagules
4.12 Plastic, glass, metal and other undesirable
materials
4.13 Eutrophication agents
4.14 Gaseous emission
4.15 Phytotoxic factors
4.16 Plant pathogens
5 Summary of Hazards and Corresponding Recommended
Actions
Annex A - Background
Annex B - Metal limits in soil improvers and growing
media note for discussion
Annex C - Heavy Metal Limits in Soil Improvers:
Discussion Guidelines
Annex D - Proposal for the elaboration of precautionary
soil values
Annex E - Working priorities for WG2
Bibliography
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