Sarah Dack, principal risk assessor, and James D Nelson, associate for risk assessment & modelling, of Mouchel look at the strides risk assessment has taken in recent years. In the mid 90s the number of quantitative human health risk practitioners in the UK could be counted on your fingers. Industry was screening against ICRCL/Kelly tables ...

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VSD Avenue, a joint venture partnership between VolkerStevin, DEC and Sita Remediation, started work at the beginning of September on the remediation of the former Avenue Coking Works in Chesterfield; one of the most heavily contaminated sites in Europe. Guy Pomphrey, chairman of VSD Avenue, explains The £82m contract, signed in July, was ...

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I can remember years ago when I entered the green arena. In 2005, I was managing two real estate offices in Sarasota, Florida in the middle of the real estate boom. As the year progressed, I began to hear about green building and the challenges of our current built structure. When I began to understand that our homes and workspaces could be toxic, ...

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Pharmaceutical manufacturers may face various challenges when attempting to meet the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) requirements for residual solvents (volatile organic chemicals).Residual solvents in pharmaceuticals are trace level impurities of volatile organic compounds in final products or excipients. In general, residual solvents ...

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Nowadays, real estate mortgage companies often require the execution of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) to identify a property’s potential environmental concerns which may affect its value and/or liabilities.  The purpose of the Phase I ESA is to disclose any Recognized Environmental Condition (REC) associated with the property.  It ...

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In 2008, EPA Region 9 received an EPA RARE grant (Regional Applied Research Effort) to evaluate three promising techniques for VI assessment of indoor air: (1) using radon as a surrogate for assessing VOC VI; (2) using modified sorbent-based methods for longer, time-integrated measurements of indoor air VOCs; and (3) using building pressure ...

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