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CR 13455:1999

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Soil improvers and growing media - Guidelines for the safety of users, the environment and plants

Published date

14-07-1999

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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Description of hazards and products
4 Product safety assessment
5 Summary of hazards and corresponding recommended
  actions
Annexes
Annex A (informative) - Background
Annex B (informative) - Metal limits in soil improvers
        and growing media note for discussion
Annex C (informative) - Heavy Metal Limits in Soil
        Improvers: Discussion Guidelines
Annex D (informative) - Proposal for the elaboration
        of precautionary soil values
Annex E (informative) - Working priorities for WG 2
Bibliography

This CEN Report contains an assessment of the safety implications of soil improvers and growing media. This assessment provides a framework in which guidelings have been suggested to protect users (the exposed population in general), the environment (flora, fauna, and ecosystems in a broad sense, including soil and water) and plants that are grown in the soil improver or growing media.

Committee
CEN/TC 223
DocumentType
Report
PublisherName
Comite Europeen de Normalisation
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
FD CR 13455 : 2001 FD Identical
DIN-FACHBERICHT 90 : 2001 Identical
PD CR 13455:1999 Identical
S.R. CR 13455:1999 Identical
UNE-CR 13455:2002 Identical

PD CEN/TR 15584:2007 Characterisation of sludges. Guide to risk assessment especially in relation to use and disposal of sludges
S.R. CR 13456:1999 SOIL IMPROVERS AND GROWING MEDIA - LABELLING, SPECIFICATIONS AND PRODUCT SCHEDULES
S.R. CEN TR 15584:2007 CHARACTERISATION OF SLUDGES - GUIDE TO RISK ASSESSMENT ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO USE AND DISPOSAL OF SLUDGES
CEN/TR 15584:2007 Characterisation of sludges - Guide to risk assessment especially in relation to use and disposal of sludges
CR 13456:1999 Soil improvers and growing media - Labelling, specifications and product schedules

BS EN 71-2 : 2011 SAFETY OF TOYS - PART 2: FLAMMABILITY
ONORM S 2023 : 1993 ANALYTICAL METHODS AND QUALITY CONTROL OF COMPOST
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ISO/IEC Guide 51:2014 Safety aspects — Guidelines for their inclusion in standards
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