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Chemical Safety Information - Glossary
Environmental Quality Objective
An Environmental Quality Objective (or EQO) is typically a non-enforceable goal, which specifies a target for environmental quality which, it is hoped, will be met in some particular environment, such as a river, beach or industrial site. EQOs are generally not set by regulation (unlike "Environmental Quality Standards") and often are cast in the rather vague form of generally desirable objectives, rather than as more concrete quantitative measures.
