Soil, treated biowaste and sludge. Determination of dioxins and furans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls by gas chromatography with high resolution mass selective detection (HR GC-MS)
What is BS EN 16190 about?
BS EN 16190 is an international standard that discusses soil, treated biowaste, sludge, and waste.
BS EN 16190 specifies a method for the quantitative determination of 17 2,3,7,8-chlorine substituted dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sludge, treated biowaste and soil using gas chromatographic clean-up methods and GC/HRMS.
BS EN 16190 provides a method that is “performance-based”. It is allowed to modify the method if all performance criteria given in this method are met. The limit of detection depends on the kind of sample, the congener, the equipment used, and the quality of chemicals used for extraction and clean-up.