The bedrock in Fennoscandia has undergone very thorough geological process e.g. metamorphism and magmaKism and most of it deep in the earth's crust. In these processes, chemical elements redistribute and many of them, because of volatility, ionic radius, etc., migrate upwards to the rocks and sediments deposited near the surface. Because recent bedrock, especially in the eastern part, is old (up to 2.8 Ga), the rocks deposited near the surface have eroded and especially trace elements, of which they have been enriched, have after weathering migrated out. The depleted trace element content of bedrock is reflected into the sediments and especially into till, which is the mst c o m n sediment being brought about by glaciation and from which soils and many other sediments are derived. It can be concluded that excluding soils with volcanogenic material and soils with high adsorption capacity, eleients like V, Cr, Ni, Cu, Mo, Zn, B, F, Se and I are not in large areas present in concentrations needed for nutrition and elements like As, Sb, Bi, Pb, Cd, T1, Se and F are not present in toxic concentrations. Further, in the northern countries, the probability of nutritional deficiency and especially the latent one increases and toxicity d€!CKeaS€?S because of geological reasons in the order Iceland-Denmark-Norway-Sweden-Finland.