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Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… OF POPS: A GUIDE TO THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS Printed on recycled paper Printed in … Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants United Nations Environment Programme … greatly to human well-being. Chemicals have raised farming yields by killing crop pests and have made possible …
Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… the bay for decades in the plant's wastewater and, in the organic form of methyl mercury, it had entered the food … desperately striving both to industrialize and to raise farming yields, and sometimes they use chemicals they don't … is aimed at halting the use of hazardous persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and at coping with their widespread …