BS ISO 8259:2024

Soil quality. Bioaccessibility of organic and inorganic pollutants from contaminated soil and soil-like materials. | Status: Current

1 Scope This document specifies a method for testing the bioaccessibility of substances from contaminated soil and soil-like materials. The method is not applicable for volatile contaminants. Furthermore, the method is only applicable if suitable analytical methods for extraction and detection of substances and/or elements from complex digestion assays are available.

NOTE During the in vivo validation with minipigs, the PAHs naphthalene, acenaphthylene, acenaphthene and fluorene were not evaluated due to their volatility.[40] However, the results of the overall recovery indicate if volatilisation has occurred during the test.