title: Assessing the environmental risks associated with contaminated sites: Definition of an Ecotoxicological Classification index for landfill areas (ECRIS).
abstract: Assessing ecological risk in quantitative terms is a site-specific complex procedure requiring evaluation of all possible pathways taken by the chemicals from the contamination source to the targets to be protected. Unfortunately, too many cases lack of physico-chemical and ecotoxicological data makes impossible to quantify the ecological risk. We present the Ecotoxicological Classification Risk Index for Soil (ECRIS), a new classification system specific for soil risk assessment, which gives a comparative indication of the risk linked to environmental contamination by any chemical. The tool we propose is based on the integration of a data set characterizing the ecotoxicological and exposure profile of chemicals. ECRIS is a simple approach specifically set up for the landfill scenario. This index draws on the huge amount of data from our many years of leachate analysis. ECRIS is useful for a first screening of probably contaminated soil. A case study based on some Italian landfills is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Senese
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Boriani
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baderna
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mariani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lodi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finizio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Testa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Benfenati
mesh_terms: D054750:Ecotoxicology; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D012307:Risk Factors; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; D012989:Soil Pollutants