Pollution persistent organic pollutants

Arctic Pollution, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Radioactivity, Human Health, Changing Pathways, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 2002. http //amap.no/documents. 

The methods, which allow in one procedure of analysis to overcome, for example, most pesticides which are used in agricultural practice in the present time, get development and introduction in practice. The contribution of the Ukrainian scientists in field of chromatographic analysis of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs, chlorinated hydrocarbons, PCB s) and supertoxicants, such as PCDDs, is estimated. 

UPTAKE AND BIO AVAILABILITY OP PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS BY PLANTS GROWN IN CONTAMINATED SOIL... 

This study assesses the uptake of persistent organic pollutants (a-Endosulfan, P-Endosulfan and Endosulfan sulphate) from lettuce. The lettuce plants were grown on compost that had previously been contaminated at 10 and 50 J.g/g. 

Persistent organic pollutants (POP) and heavy metals were in the focus of interest until the begiiming of the 1990s and intensive monitoring programs and ecotoxico-logical studies had been conducted. As a result, due to adoption of appropriate measures and elimination of the dominant pollution sources a drastic reduction of emission of these nonpolar hazardous compounds have been achieved and today these compounds are less relevant for the industrialized countries. 

Moriarty, F. (Ed.) (1975). Organochlorine Insecticides Persistent Organic Pollutants—A collection of focused chapters on ecotoxicological aspects of the organochlorine insecticides. 

Walker, C.H. (1975). Variations in the intake and elimination of pollutants. In Organochlorine Insecticides Persistent Organic Pollutants. London Academic Press, 73-131. 

The potential of the dimeric system 7 is perhaps best exemplified by its ability to bring about the total hydrodechlorination of decachlorobiphenyl, a member of the notorious family of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs (Persistent Organic Pollutants, POPs), in the presence of the inexpensive base NaOH (Table 8.3). 

C. Bernes, Persistent Organic Pollutants. A Swedish View of an International Problem, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm (1998). 

Walker C.H. Variation in the Intake and Elimination of Pollutants // Organochlorine Insecticides Persistent Organic Pollutants. Acad. Press 1975. P. 73-131. 

El-Shahawi MS, Hamza A, Bashammakh AS, Al-Saggaf WT (2010) An overview on the accumulation, distribution, transformations, toxicity and analytical methods for the monitoring of persistent organic pollutants. Talanta 80(5) 1587-1597... 

Wania F, Persson J, Di Guardo A, McLachlan MS (2000) CoZMo-POP. A fugacity-based multi-comparlmental mass balance model of the fate of persistent organic pollutants in the coastal zone. WECC report 1/2000. Toronto (April)... 

Several studies have suggested that some critical adverse effects like peroxisome proliferation, hepatotoxicity, immunotoxicity, and developmental toxicity may be associated with chemical exposure to PFCs, particularly to PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), two ubiquitous persistent organic pollutants with possible environmental and human health risks. 

One of the most known is the Stockholm Convention of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) which is signed by 151 countries [6]. The Stockholm Convention, which was adopted in 2001 and entered into force in year 2004, requires all parties to take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of POPs into the environment. 

United Nations Environmental Programme (2009) Stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as amended in 2009... 

Zhao G, Xu Y, Li W, Han G, Ling B (2007) Prenatal exposures to persistent organic pollutants as measured in cord blood and meconium from three localities of Zhejiang, China. Sci Total Environ 377(2-3) 179-191. doi 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.006... 

Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal and 69 ratified the ban on all kinds of hazardous waste export from wealthy OECD-countries to non-OECD countries, large amounts of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are shipped overseas for recycling, the majority to China as reported by Brigden et al. [2] and Puckett et al. [3], lesser quantities to India and Western Africa reported by Kuper and Hojsik [4]. WEEE contains a variety of harmful substances like endocrine disruptors and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Additionally, hazardous substances may be formed during informal recycling. This often practised informal treatment without proper equipment for metal extraction and labour safety heavily affects the environment and human health of workers and the inhabitants of whole stretches of land. 

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