Implementation of bioavailability-based metal guideline values in Australia and New Zealand – Part 1

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Australian and New Zealand governments, and Australian state and territory governments, 2026

This report is the first of 2 reports that document the process for deriving metal default guideline values for copper, nickel and zinc in freshwater. This report documents the first part of the process – the collation of water chemistry data from around Australia and New Zealand, including description of the data sources, processing, screening and calculations to fill missing data. It presents the data collated and assesses their representativeness for each country.

Much of this work was funded by the Metals Environment Research Associations (MERA) under the project titled “Implementation of bioavailability-based metal guideline values for Australia and New Zealand”.

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