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Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… anti- cipated or intended. The first 12 POPs Aldrin – A pesticide applied to soils to kill termites, grasshoppers, … to be used as an intermediate in the produc- tion of the pesticide dicofol in countries that have registered for this … hexachlorobenzene (HCB), which is also used as a pesticide and can be a byproduct of pesticide manufacture, …
The 16 New POPs - An introduction to the chemicals added to the Stockholm Convention as Persistent Organic Pollutants by the Conference of the Parties
… website: (http://chm.pops.int/tabid/3486/Default.aspx) 6 Pesticide ■ ● Acceptable purposes and specific exemptions for … properties Chlordecone is chemically related to Mirex, a pesticide listed in Annex A of the Convention. POPs … organic compound, which was mainly used as an agricultural pesticide. It was first produced in 1951 and commercially …