Contaminated Land (CONTEST)

"Contaminated land proficiency testing - with real world soil and leachate samples for a variety of analytes"  

Land contamination – from sources including industrial waste, oil and fuel dumping, domestic pollution, pesticides, landfills, and leaking storage tanks – poses serious environmental and human health risks.

To help combat this threat, CONTEST - LGC AXIO's Contaminated Land proficiency testing scheme - offers participating laboratories a wide range of real-world soil and leachate samples, covering a variety of metal and organo-metallic, organic and inorganic analytes. Participating in CONTEST also ensures that laboratories meet the requirements of the UK Environment Agency’s MCERTS performance standard for chemical testing of soil.