PMID- 12214720
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020917
LR  - 20230317
IS  - 0944-1344 (Print)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 4
DP  - 2002
TI  - Man-made chemicals found in remote areas of the world: the experimental 
      definition for POPs.
PG  - 274-88
AB  - Members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) signed a 
      legally binding protocol on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in February 1998 
      under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. A treaty that 
      intends to control the production, import, export, disposal and use of toxic 
      chemicals that persist for decades in the environment has been formally signed at 
      a conference in May 2001 in Stockholm. The 2001 POP treaty, like the 1998 LRTAP 
      POP protocol, contains a provision on adding further chemicals to the initial 
      group of twelve or fifteen. The occurrence of a compound or a group of compounds 
      in so called remote and pristine areas, e.g. in the Artic or in the Southern 
      Hemisphere, proves its stability under the chemical and biological conditions of 
      the environment. Compounds identified in this way, in samples taken primarily in 
      very remote regions of the planet, are classified by their environmental fate and 
      global distribution as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), regardless of any 
      political assessments.
FAU - Ballschmite, Karlheinz
AU  - Ballschmite K
AD  - University of Ulm, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Germany. 
      karlheinz.ballschmiter@chemie.uni-ulm.de
FAU - Hackenberg, Rudolf
AU  - Hackenberg R
FAU - Jarman, Walter M
AU  - Jarman WM
FAU - Looser, Ralf
AU  - Looser R
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Xenobiotics)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Movements
MH  - *Environment
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis/pharmacokinetics
MH  - International Cooperation
MH  - Models, Theoretical
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis/pharmacokinetics
MH  - Politics
MH  - Water Movements
MH  - Xenobiotics/*analysis/pharmacokinetics
EDAT- 2002/09/07 10:00
MHDA- 2002/09/18 10:01
CRDT- 2002/09/07 10:00
PHST- 2002/09/07 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/09/18 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/09/07 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/BF02987503 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2002;9(4):274-88. doi: 10.1007/BF02987503.