Persistent organic pollutants
STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS. Conscious of the need for global action on persistent organic pollutants,
... The institutional structure of the Global Environment Facility, operated in accordance with the Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, shall, on an interim basis, be the ...
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Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas
... as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals, have a wide range of harmful effects on animals and humans and are beginning to be reported in sea turtle populations around the ...
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Recommended maximum contents of persistent organic pollutants in sewage sludge for application on agricultural soils
... soil organic mater and the problem of potentially risk elements (Melcer et ...of persistent organic pollutants in sludge (Markard 1988, Witte 1988, Starke et ...
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Assessment of limit values of risk elements and persistent organic pollutants in soil for Czech legislation
... for persistent organic pollutants. Czech persistent organic pollutants limits were derived from available external data (especially from the Netherlands) since no relevant data ...
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Spatial biomonitoring of persistent organic pollutants in Iran : a study using locally produced butter
... Butter is a readily collected, integrative and inexpensive sampling matrix for the spatial mapping of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) at the national or regional scale. As air-plant-animal ...
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(Persistent) Organic pollutants in Germany: results from a pilot study within the 2015 moss survey
... selected organic contaminants in moss samples from Germany taken within the framework of the 2015 Euro- pean moss ...(persistent) organic pollutants in moss sam- ples were to be determined for ...
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Potential of the soil microbial biomass C to tolerate and degrade persistent organic pollutants
... The contamination with persistent organic pollutants affected microbial activities in soils. Microbial activities were affected particularly by high concentrations of PAHs in soils as the soil ...
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Metals and persistent organic pollutants as ecological determinants of human health in Naivasha, Kenya
... Several previous studies have attempted to quantify metals (Table 1.1) (Campbell, et al. 2003; Njogu, et al., 2011; Mutia, et al., 2012) and persistent organic pollutants (Table 1.2) (Mugachia, et ...
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Tracking the global distribution of persistent organic pollutants accounting for e waste exports to developing regions
... There are many ways in which harmful chemicals may travel around the globe and have adverse e ff ects, far away from the locations of their production and initial use. Well-known examples are Persistent ...
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Framing elite policy discourse: science and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
... chemical pollutants largely determine the type of political problem they ...chemical pollutants that are not subject to long-range environmental transport may be dealt with effectively on a local or ...
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Association between levels of persistent organic pollutants in adipose tissue and cryptorchidism in early childhood: a case–control study
... fat-soluble persistent organic pollutants in the ...of persistent organic pollutants appear to be similar between serum and adipose tissue [33], but the serum levels appear to ...
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North Pacific Baleen Whales as a Potential Source of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Diet of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Arctic Coasts
... on Persistent Organic Pollutants was completed on 23 May 2001, and entered into force on 17 May ...additional organic compounds were ...
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Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants and child overweight/obesity at 5-year follow-up: a prospective cohort study
... Background: Prenatal exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), may influence offspring weight gain. More prospective epidemiological studies are needed to compliment the growing body of ...
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Biomonitoring of selected persistent organic pollutants (PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PBDEs) in Finnish and Russian terrestrial and aquatic animal species
... From the aquatic point of view, the Baltic Sea is consid- ered to be one of the most polluted waters in the world con- taminated by Persistent organic pollutants (POPs). They are discharged from ...
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Biotransfer of persistent organic pollutants from a large site in China used for the disassembly of electronic and electrical waste
... these pollutants were estimated for local residents living in the ...of persistent organic pollutants into the local environment, such as through leakage, evaporation, runoff, and ...
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Persistent organic pollutants and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in morbidly obese patients: a cohort study
... For POPs 2 blanks and 2 control samples (NIST SRM1958) were included in each batch of samples (n = 9). Measured concentrations of POPs in SRM1958 were 80–105 % of the certified/reference concentrations, except for ...
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Dietary and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Serum Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Levels in Pregnant Women in Tehran
... Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) comprise a large variety of substance such as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and Polybrominateddiphenyl ethers (PBDEs) that are characterized by their ability ...
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The effects of global climate change on the cycling and processes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the North Sea
... Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are highly toxic chemi- cals. As their name suggests, they degrade slowly and, thus, have long half lives, generally on the order of years to tens of years. In ...
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Atmospheric half lives of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) study combining DFT and QSPR results
... Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship (QSPR) study was applied to the prediction of the characteristic of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) screening for atmosphere persistence. The mean ...
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Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in maternal and cord blood from the maternal-infant research on environmental chemicals (MIREC) cohort study
... POPs: persistent organic pollutants; Tox 26: toxaphene parlar 26; Tox50: toxaphene parlar 50; β -HCH: β -Hexachlorocylcohexane; γ -HCH: γ - ...
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