pops:  persistent organic pollutants

04.2000: Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. T

he Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

POPs are chemicals that remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of living organisms and are toxic to humans and wildlife. POPs circulate globally and can cause damage wherever they travel. In implementing the Convention, Governments will take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of POPs into the environment. For a copy of the treaty document, see http://www.chem.unep.ch/sc/ .

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NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 1999 (ENS) - For the first time, United Nations member countries are working towards banning an entire class of chemicals - persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-22-01.html

  U.S. UNDERMINES POPS TREATY . by Charlie Cray*

The world is moving slowly toward a groundbreaking international treaty aimed at controlling or eliminating 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS), including 8 pesticides (DDT, aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex and toxaphene), two industrial chemicals (hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]), and two industrial byproducts (dioxin and furans). See REHW #601. The treaty is scheduled to be signed in Stockholm in May of 2001. However, there is a fly in the ointment: the Clinton/Gore administration seems willing ......

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