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Table 5.

Total PAH, PCB, and PCDD/F concentrations in HSW amendments alongside toxicity thresholds.

	Highest heating temperature (°C)				Toxicity thresholds
Contaminant	60 (compost)	300	500	700	European Commission^a	Lower Austria^a, ^b	EPA^c
PAH^d (µg/kg amendment)	56	942	1633	54	6000
PCB (µg/kg amendment)	1.96^e	0.91^e	1.22^e	2.59^e	800^f	200^g
PCDD/F TEQ^h (ng/kg amendment)	0.97	0	0	0	100	100	300

European Commission (2001).

Fürhacker and Lence (1997).

EPA (2000).

Sum of acenaphthene, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(b,k)fluoranthene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene, fluoranthene, fluorene, indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene, phenanthrene, pyrene (Supplementary Table 8).

Sum of PCB congeners 1–209 (Supplementary Table 9).

Sum of PCB congeners 28, 52, 101, 118, 138, 153, 180.

Sum of PCB congeners 28, 52, 101, 138, 153, 180.

Sum of TEQ for all PCDD/F congeners (Supplementary Table 10).