What are the priorities for SGV development in the next 12/24 months?
The revised guidance provides a framework approach that can be used to consider substances including where no SGV are available. We have an existing programme that will publish SGV and TOX reports for a number of priority substances. In addition to revising the existing ten SGV reports, we will also publish new SGV reports. The new SGV reports that will be published first will be based on the priorities identified by members of the SGV Task force, comprising around thirty leading government, academic and industry representatives, and includes many of the most common substances encountered on brownfield sites. The substances that we will publish first include: • heavy metals and other inorganic compounds: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cyanide, lead, mercury, nickel, and selenium; • benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene and xylenes; • phenol; • dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); • polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The number of new Soil Guideline Values will depend o
