Environmental pollution by man-made persistent organic chemicals
(POCs) has been a serious global issue for over half a century.
POCs are prevalent in air, water, soil, and organisms including
wildlife and humans throughout the world. They do not degrade and
cause long-term effect in organisms. Exposure to certain POCs may
result in serious environmental and health effects including birth
defects, diminished intelligence and certain types of cancers.
Therefore, POCs have been the subject of an intensive regional,
national and international effort to limit their production, use,
and disposal of these chemical stocks. Trend monitoring studies are
essential to make clear the behavior and fate of these compounds
and to protect our environment and living resources. Global
Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals provides
comprehensive coverage of spatial and temporal trends of classical
and emerging contaminants in aquatic, terrestrial, and marine
ecosystems, including the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems. Compiled
by an international group of experts, this volume covers: Spatial
and temporal trends of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs),
polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/DFs), polybrominated
diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs),
perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), synthetic musks, polynuclear
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and octyl- and nonylphenols
Environmental and biological matrices used for the trend studies
were atmosphere, water, soil, sediment, bivalve mollusks, fish,
marine mammals, terrestrial mammals, and human breast milk Spatial
and temporal trend studies presented from Australia, Brazil, China,
Estonia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway,
Poland, Sweden, the United States, coastal and open ocean
environments, and the Arctic and Antarctic regions POCs have been
the subject of an intensive regional, national, and international
effort to limit their production and use, and to mitigate the
disposal of these chemicals. Since POCs are prevalent in air,
water, soil, and tissues of organisms (including wildlife and
humans) throughout the world and do not degrade, they cause
long-term effects in organisms. Trend monitoring studies are
essential to make clear the behavior and fate of these compounds
and to protect our environment and living resources. Relevant to
professionals and students alike, Global Contamination Trends of
Persistent Organic Chemicals facilitates the understanding of
environmental and biological behavior of these chemicals and the
development of strategies for protecting the global environment for
future generations.
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