Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Pollutants | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-04

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00:00:47 1 Consequences of persistence
00:01:50 1.1 Long-range transport
00:02:59 1.2 Bioaccumulation
00:03:59 2 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
00:05:27 2.1 Compounds on the Stockholm Convention list
00:13:04 2.2 New POPs on the Stockholm Convention list
00:16:57 3 Health effects
00:18:07 3.1 Endocrine disruption
00:19:20 3.2 Reproductive system
00:19:59 3.2.1 Gestational weight gain and newborn head circumference
00:20:57 3.3 Additive and synergistic effects
00:21:37 4 In urban areas and indoor environments
00:22:24 5 Control and removal in the environment
00:23:23 6 See also



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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. Because of their persistence, POPs bioaccumulate with potential adverse impacts on human health and the environment. The effect of POPs on human and environmental health was discussed, with intention to eliminate or severely restrict their production, by the international community at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.
Many POPs are currently or were in the past used as pesticides, solvents, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals. Although some POPs arise naturally, for example volcanoes and various biosynthetic pathways, most are man-made via total synthesis.