The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA) has requested an update of the 2004 report ‘Lead and inorganic lead compounds. Evaluation of health hazards and estimation of a quality criterion in soil’ primarily based on the EFSA (2010) opinion, but also on the most recent evaluations on lead. Based on the report an administrative based quality criterion in drinking water has subsequently been established as stated in the enclosure to the report.
Administrative considerations for setting a limit value for lead in drinking water