Persistent Organic Pollutants
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Beschreibung
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic, resistant todegradation, bioaccumulative, and display wide spatialdistribution. They accumulate in humans and wildlife, and have beenlinked to cancer, as well as reproductive and immunologicaldisorders. In 2001 a global treaty on POPs was agreed, to minimiseand ultimately eliminate the release of POPs into the environment.The Stockholm Convention lists 12 groups of chemicals, and as oflate 2008, a further 12 chemicals are under consideration forinclusion.
This book addresses all of these chemicals, but focusesparticularly on currently listed POPs that are still of majorconcern (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls - PCBs), as well as new andemerging POPs that have been the subject of an explosion ofscientific interest in the last decade, i.e. brominated flameretardants (BFRs) and perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs). Otherchapters address the challenges posed by the presence of POPs inthe developing world; how the properties of chiral POPs can provideunique insights into their environmental sources, fate andbehaviour; and issues arising from the presence of POPs in urbanand indoor environments. Persistent Organic Pollutantsprovides a much-anticipated reference source for a wide audienceincluding academics, industrial scientists and regulators.
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Stuart Harrad
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Chemie Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Toxicology Toxikologie Umweltchemie Umweltwissenschaften