PMID- 24525153
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140507
LR  - 20220318
IS  - 1873-6750 (Electronic)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Linking)
VI  - 66
DP  - 2014 May
TI  - Environment and human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in India: 
      a systematic review of recent and historical data.
PG  - 48-64
LID - S0160-4120(14)00027-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.022 [doi]
AB  - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been used in a wide range of 
      agricultural and industrial commodities, resulting in vigorous deterioration of 
      environment and human health. A number of studies on the occurrence of POPs 
      confirm their presence in various environmental compartments and human body. In 
      order to deal with this global concern, India has recently prepared the National 
      Implementation Plan (NIP) of the Stockholm Convention. Common beliefs point at 
      India as a hot spot of POP contamination and human exposure; however no 
      systematic analysis was ever performed so far considering all available past data 
      on POP occurrence. This review aims to examine the distribution pattern of POPs 
      in multicompartment environment and human samples, meta-analysis of time trends 
      in exposure levels to environment and humans, and cross country comparison of POP 
      contamination with China. Based on this review, it can be concluded that the 
      Indian environment and human population are highly contaminated by DDTs and HCHs; 
      however scarcity of data on other POPs makes it challenging to assess their 
      nationwide human and environmental exposure. No evidence of a general decline in 
      DDT and HCH residues in the environment and human body come out from the 
      meta-analysis of time trend. While comparing contamination levels between India 
      and China, tendency towards decline in POP contamination is visible in China, 
      unlike India.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Sharma, Brij Mohan
AU  - Sharma BM
AD  - TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, Delhi, 
      India. Electronic address: brijmsharma05@gmail.com.
FAU - Bharat, Girija K
AU  - Bharat GK
AD  - The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Center, 
      Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, Delhi, India.
FAU - Tayal, Shresth
AU  - Tayal S
AD  - TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, Delhi, 
      India; The Energy and Resources Institute, Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat 
      Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, Delhi, India.
FAU - Nizzetto, Luca
AU  - Nizzetto L
AD  - Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, Oslo 0349, Norway; 
      Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno 
      62500, Czech Republic.
FAU - Cupr, Pavel
AU  - Cupr P
AD  - Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno 
      62500, Czech Republic.
FAU - Larssen, Thorjorn
AU  - Larssen T
AD  - Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalleen 21, Oslo 0349, Norway.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PT  - Systematic Review
DEP - 20140211
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Int
JT  - Environment international
JID - 7807270
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Aquatic Organisms/chemistry
MH  - *Environmental Exposure
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis/blood
MH  - Geologic Sediments/chemistry
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis/blood
MH  - Water/chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bioaccumulation
OT  - Environmental contamination
OT  - Human exposure
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
EDAT- 2014/02/15 06:00
MHDA- 2014/05/08 06:00
CRDT- 2014/02/15 06:00
PHST- 2013/10/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/01/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/01/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/02/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/02/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/05/08 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0160-4120(14)00027-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.022 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Int. 2014 May;66:48-64. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.022. Epub 2014 Feb 
      11.