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Author(s): Stuart Harrad
ISBN(s): 9781405169301, 1405169303
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.25 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1405169303

ISBN 13: 9781405169301

Author: Stuart Harrad

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic, resistant to degradation, bioaccumulative, and display wide spatial distribution. They accumulate in humans and wildlife, and have been linked to cancer, as well as reproductive and immunological disorders. In 2001 a global treaty on POPs was agreed, to minimise and ultimately eliminate the release of POPs into the environment. The Stockholm Convention lists 12 groups of chemicals, and as of late 2008, a further 12 chemicals are under consideration for inclusion.

This book addresses all of these chemicals, but focuses particularly on currently listed POPs that are still of major concern (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls – PCBs), as well as new and emerging POPs that have been the subject of an explosion of scientific interest in the last decade, i.e. brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and perfluorinated  chemicals (PFCs). Other chapters address the challenges posed by the presence of POPs in the developing world; how the properties of chiral POPs can provide unique insights into their environmental sources, fate and behaviour; and issues arising from the presence of POPs in urban and indoor environments. Persistent Organic Pollutants provides a much-anticipated reference source for a wide audience including academics, industrial scientists and regulators.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Beyond the Stockholm Convention: An Introduction to Current Issues and Future Challenges in POPs Research

Chapter 2. Brominated Flame Retardants

Chapter 3. Perfluoroalkyl Compounds

Chapter 4. Chirality as an Environmental Forensics Tool

Chapter 5. Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Developing World

Chapter 6. Sources, Fate and Effects of Contaminant Emissions in Urban Areas

Chapter 7. The Contamination of Indoor Environments with Persistent Organic Pollutants

Chapter 8. The Chemicals that will not Go Away: Implications for Human Exposure to Reservoirs of POPs

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