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- WHO-TEQ Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- WHO-TEQ
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- Sainmhíniú value expressing the overall toxicity of a mixture containing several kinds of dioxins and/or dioxin-like compounds, each of which is assigned a 'toxic equivalency factor' (TEF or WHO-TEF) expressing its toxicity as a fraction of that of the most toxic dioxin known (2,3,7,8-TCDD), which is given a reference value of 1, under the scheme launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 and based on the I-TEQ scheme set up by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1989 Tagairt "COM-EN, based on:- Green Facts > Toxic Equivalents Scheme (TEFs & TEQs), http://www.greenfacts.org/en/dioxins/toolboxes/teq-explanations.htm [7.6.2016] - CEN/TC BT/TF 151. 'Soils, sludges and treated biowaste — Determination of dioxines and furans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls by gaschromatography with high resolution mass spectrometra (GCC/HRMS)', https://www.ecn.nl/docs/society/horizontal/Dioxin_Furan_DL-PCB_Standard_for_validation.pdf [7.6.2017]"
- Nóta "See also: - 2,3,7,8-TCDD [ IATE:133291 ]- WHO-TEF [ IATE:926367 ]- I-TEQ [ IATE:3567143 ]- TEQ [ IATE:1055272 ]The WHO-TEQ scheme has generally replaced the I-TEQ scheme set up by NATO in 1989."