Do the new Health Criteria Values (HCV) and Soil Guideline Values (SGV) represent the trigger for an “unacceptable intake”?
No. Health Criteria Values (HCV), and Soil Guideline Values (SGV) are based on minimal risks to health. SGV are a starting point for evaluating the risk to health from soil contamination. They represent trigger values above which there might be a significant possibility of significant harm with the significance linked to the margin of exceedance, the duration and frequency of exposure and other site-specific factors that the enforcing authority may wish to take into account.
