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The 16 New POPs - An introduction to the chemicals added to the Stockholm Convention as Persistent Organic Pollutants by the Conference of the Parties
… biomagnification, as well as for long- range transport. Adverse effects are reported for soil organisms, birds, fish, … It can be long-range transported leading to significant adverse human health and environmental effects and it is … -range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects . Use and …
POPs Chemicals - Decabromodiphenyl ether (Commercial mixture, c-decaBDE)
… mammals. Particularly, they can cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment. SCCPs may cause … damage when inhaled at higher levels. It may have an adverse effect to fatty liver degeneration as well. According to the …
Introduction to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
… compliance has often been inadequate to prevent serious adverse consequences for marine biodiversity. The most … organisms, destroy marine habitats and otherwise have adverse effects on the functioning of marine ecosystems. If …
Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)
… benefits from using chemicals, while minimising the adverse effects. Michael Depledge went on to talk about how … biological events. This could increase the knowledge of adverse outcome pathways for whole organisms. • When … paradigm that 'only the dose makes the poison', since the effect is not dependent only on the dose. Rather, the …
GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether - 2009 (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF24)
… in a range of non-human species, to cause significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, such … by ATH has been shown to be partly due to the “heat sink” effect and partly due to the dilution of combustible gases by … has restrictions in some countries. The potential adverse effects of several of the halogenated flame …