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  • Nkayi and Ouesso Congo Summary

    Friday, 19 October 2012 - 10:52pm

    Comparative study on environmental, socioeconomic and health impacts of POPs use and contamination in contaminated areas: Ouesse and Nkayi, Republic of Congo

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  • Envisioning a Toxics-Free Future

    Working with a strategic approach toward 2020 goal
    Friday, 12 October 2012 - 3:38pm

    'IPEN envisages a time when all chemicals are produced and used in ways that eliminate significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, and where they longer pollute our local and global environments, and no longer contaminate our communities, our food, our bodies, and most importantly, the bodies of our children and future generations.'

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  • What is the Stockholm Convention?

    Limiting use of POPs is only one of its provisions
    Friday, 12 October 2012 - 3:23pm

    The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2001 is a international agreement by the nations of the world to address the global chemical pollution. Its objective is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants or POPs. POPs include the organochlorine pesticides DDT, endrin, dieldrin, aldrin, chlordane, toxaphene, heptachlor, mirex, and hexachlorobenzene, as well as the industrial chemicals and by-products PCBs, dioxins, and furans.

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  • What are POPs?

    Friday, 12 October 2012 - 3:17pm

    Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are a group of chemicals that are very toxic and can cause cancer and other adverse health effects. POPs are persistent in the environment and travel vast distances via air and water. POPs are organic chemical compounds which bioaccumulate in animals and humans. These pollutants are primarily the products and by-products of human industrial processes.

    The initial list of twelve POPs include :

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  • What Are POPs?

    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a class of highly hazardous chemical pollutants that are recognized as a serious, global threat to human health and to ecosystems. POPs are substances that specifically:

  • Industrial Chemicals

    Industrial chemicals are chemicals that are developed for use in the industrial processing of chemicals. Some industrial chemicals are only used in industrial production processes while many others are used as ingredients in the commercial products that appear in consumer markets.

  • Waste (By-Products)

    Some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are by-products that were produced unintentionally and released to the environment during combustion or during some chemical processes. For example, dioxins, furans, alpha-HCH, and beta-HCH are never intentionally produced (except for laboratory purposes). Dioxin, for example, one of the original "Dirty Dozen" of the Stockholm Convention, is typically produced during incineration. Two others, PCBs and HCB, are produced both intentionally and unintentionally.

  • POPs At-a-Glance

    19 June 2012 - 2:21pm -- ipen

    Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are a group of toxic chemicals—including some pesticides and by-products of industry—that remain in the environment, in food chains, and in human bodies for many years, causing endocrine disruptions and other health problems.

  • Tbilisi Conference Underscores Lack of Chemical Safety in Georgia

    Thursday, 24 May 2012

    Lack of Chemical Safety in Georgia addressed at high level conference

    May 24th, 2012. An international Conference held in Tbilisi on ‘Reducing the use of hazardous chemicals in Georgia", organized by Greens Movement and IPEN Participating Organization WECF, addressed lack of chemical safety, insufficient legislation and low awareness, but especially the urgency to act.
     

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