Sentences with phrase «organic pollutants»

The best path for us at this point is to avoid animal products as they are the leading source of persistent organic pollutants in the standard american diet.

The technology also can be used to treat water to remove pathogens and other organic pollutants.

For example, we can't easily get rid of the persistent organic pollutants which, persist in the air, water and soil although they have been banned for many years.

Eating wild - caught salmon can help protect you from contamination such as pesticides and persistent organic pollutants found in farm - raised salmon.

In short, the organic meat was far from being devoid of persistent organic pollutants.

Then on May 3, 2007, Maria Neira, director of the WHO's public - health and environment department, said at a Dakar, Senegal, meeting of the ratifiers of the Stockholm Convention — an international treaty that went into effect in 2004 that controls the use of persistent organic pollutants like DDT — that the WHO's goal was to reduce the use of DDT and eventually eliminate it.

However it is not effective against many other organic pollutants such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins.

The USGS effort is the first attempt to look for organic pollutants in streams across the county.

The concern, Barron said, is that if single - walled nanotubes combine with organic pollutants like pesticides, industrial chemicals or solvents in the environment, they may concentrate and immobilize the toxins and enhance their uptake by plants.

Nearly 40 years after Rachel Carson highlighted the dangers of DDT to wildlife, its use and that of a range of other organic pollutants became tightly restricted through the ratification of the Stockholm Convention.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

People who eat fish from glacial meltwater may be at risk from persistent organic pollutants produced in the 20th century.

Other studies examining persistent organic pollutant exposure during development and respiratory problems have looked at children younger than 7 years old.

Specifically, SUPERB homed in on 44 foods known to have high concentrations of toxic compounds: metals, arsenic, lead, and mercury; pesticides chlorpyrifos, permethrin, and endosulfan; persistent organic pollutants dioxin, DDT, dieldrin, and chlordane; and the food processing byproduct acrylamide.

The EECCA NGO campaign towards a toxic - free future succeeded in pushing the national governments to ratify the Stockholm Convention, which would eliminate the release of persistent organic pollutants into the environment; 9 of 12 countries in this region ratified the Convention and now participate as full Parties at its global meetings.

«Therefore, they can easily contaminate foods of animal origin, which are thought to represent the most important source of human exposure to many organic pollutants,» not just the alkylphenols.

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the ecosystems of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, researchers warn in the first comprehensive study to assess levels of certain organic pollutants in that part of the world.

Lipid and fatty acid composition, and persistent organic pollutant levels in tissues of migrating Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, L.) broodstock.

«We found that snow absorbs certain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are organic pollutants known to be toxic and carcinogenic,» says Yevgen Nazarenko, a postdoctoral researcher working with Parisa A. Ariya, professor at McGill's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Department of Chemistry, and collaborating with Prof. Patrice Seers» team at École de technologie supérieure.

One of these compounds is classed as a persistent organic pollutant under the UNEP Stockholm Convention and industry agreed, largely voluntarily, to phase out some of these compounds.

The ability to sorb organic pollutants has shown to differ between different parts of the Baltic Sea.

«Humans are not the only ones who produce halogenated organic pollutants.»

«Soil that has been polluted by organic pollutants such as oil can be treated by composting.

Fungi could be used to expand bioremediation for the destruction of the more enduring organic pollutants too, states Winquist.

«It's the first study to quantify the accumulation of [persistent organic pollutants] in ecosystems in the region.»

Sherr and others have shown that PCBs, dioxins, and other organic pollutants seem to activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), which, among other things, contributes to cancer.

«Moreover, in the absence of information regarding levels of persistent organic pollutants across participating cohorts, our hypothesis that fish - associated contaminant exposure may play a role in the observed associations remains speculative,» the authors write.

Some of these particles - PAHs - appear on the United Nation's list of persistent organic pollutants where they are regulated as air pollution.

Persistent organic pollutant emission via dust deposition throughout Pakistan: Spatial patterns, regional cycling and their implication for human health risks

Maybe that's why there's such higher diabetes risk, since more than 90 % of the persistent organic pollutants comes from animal foods — unless you work in a chemical factory, or stumble across some toxic waste.

In the five years since 3M phased out products based on the persistent organic pollutant perfluorooctane sulfonate, levels of perfluoronated contaminants in the blood of U.S. residents have dropped by half.

The other, says Greenpeace, has been discharging heavy metals, including chromium and copper, as well as alkylphenols, nonylphenols and other persistant organic pollutants.

National Marine Fisheries Service lab staff are studying the blubber for organic pollutants like PCBs and flame retardants.

Wastewaters from the food and beverage industry, pulp and paper mills, and chemical industry are often loaded with organic pollutants and can be advantageously treated by anaerobic processes.

The microbeads are also said to attract and absorb persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs, recognized as a public health threat and already present in the Hudson River.

Unfortunately, melting Alpine glaciers are generating a revival of toxic organic pollutants.

You will also learn evidence based strategies for reducing heavy metal and persistent organic pollutant exposures.

The 11 toxin compounds looked at were: metals, arsenic, lead, and mercury; pesticides chlorpyrifos, permethrin, and endosulfan; persistent organic pollutants dioxin, DDT, dieldrin, and chlordane; and the food processing byproduct acrylamide.

People who eat fish from glacial meltwater may be at risk from persistent organic pollutants produced in the 20th century.

Soil polluted with other organic pollutants than oil accounts for as much as 45 % of excavated contaminated soil.

Chemical oxygen demand (COD)- The quantity of oxygen required for the complete oxidation of organic chemical compounds in water; used as a measure of the level of organic pollutants in natural and waste waters.

Once in the water, plastic microbeads attract persistent organic pollutants like flame retardants and other industrial chemicals linked to human health problems — even cancer.

But that is exactly what we are doing with PAHs (carcinogens), which undermine fetal growth; with PCBs, which may trigger early labor; and with POPS (persistent organic pollutants), which pollute mothers breast milk.

Wastewaters from the food and beverage industry, pulp and paper mills and from chemical industry are often highly loaded with organic pollutants and can be advantageously treated by anaerobic processes.