Soil quality standards protect and improve soil health, crucial for agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. They guide sustainable land use and soil management practices.

Top standards

Sludge and solid environmental matrices — Determination of dry residue or water content and calculation of the dry matter fraction on a mass basis

Published in 2025
CHF 65

Environmental solid matrices — Determination of the specific electrical conductivity

Published in 2025
CHF 65

Soil quality — Sampling
Part 104: Strategies

Reviewed in 2024
CHF 221

Environmental solid matrices — Determination of elements using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)

Published in 2025
CHF 132

Soil quality — Sampling
Part 105: Packaging, transport, storage and preservation of samples

Published in 2017
CHF 65

Measurement of radioactivity in the environment — Soil
Part 3: Test method of gamma-emitting radionuclides using gamma-ray spectrometry

Published in 2023
CHF 155

Geotechnical investigation and testing — Laboratory testing of soil
Part 1: Determination of water content

Reviewed in 2025
CHF 65

Insights

The circular economy: building trust through conformity assessment
Standards and conformity assessment provide assurance on aspects of the circular economy including product lifetime and recyclability, safety and efficiency.
Smart farming: the transformative potential of data-driven agriculture
Smart farming and precision agriculture leverage technologies like agricultural drones, robotics, IoT sensors, GPS and farm management information systems to improve production efficiency.

By Clare Naden on

New standard to tackle land degradation

We live in a world where growing populations, over-development and ever-changing climate patterns are taking a daily toll on the land around us. Droughts, floods, over-cultivation, deforestation, the draining of water supplies, and unsustainable practices in general, are literally pillaging our earth. A new standard aiming to help combat that has just reached a crucial stage.

  1. Sectors
  2. Environmental sustainability
  3. Soil quality