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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013 CHALLENGING THE FATE OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS NEELU SINGH AND VARTIKA SINGH Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The green revolution beginning during the late 1960s resulted in a quantum jump in agriculture production the world-over. Indiscriminate and inappropriate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to boost the agriculture production has done more harm to the environment and especially to the human health than could have been envisaged when they were first introduced. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) concentrate on different forms this is one of the characteristics which has earned them the sobriquet of pollutants. In this article, we review the present nature of our knowledge on the POPs in India as well as internationally including the response of our country towards POPs convention. The article also highlights the need for a holistic research on the source-to-sink aspects of these compounds. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : NEELU SINGH AND VARTIKA SINGH, (2013). CHALLENGING THE FATE OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3160.pdf References : - http://chm.pops.int/Convention/ThePOPs/The12InitialPOPs/tabid/296/Default.aspx
- Stockholm Convention ; http://chm.pops.int/Convention/ThePOPs/TheNewPOPs/tabid/2511/Default.aspx
- Fernández, P. and Grimalt, O.J., On the Global Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Chimia, 2003, 57, 514–521.
- Persistent Organic Pollutants: Northwest terrotries contaminats fact sheets http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/DAM/DAM-INTER-NWT/STAGING/text/ntr_pubs_pop_1330463522734_eng.pdf
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