The concern about soil contamination is becoming more and more important in almost all European countries. Certain regions have already taken legislative initiatives for quite some time. Most of these initiatives aim at identifying and evaluating the risks of historical soil contamination due to more than 100 years of industrial evolution, and at avoiding new additional contamination.

Our team has built up definite expertise in the detection and mapping of soil contamination. This expertise has lead to the development of a fast semi-quantitative in-situ soil analysis method with low detection limits (ug/l-level) using the membrane interface probe (MIP).