Stockholm Convention On Persistent Organic Pollutants
- New Regulations of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Rules, 2018 ban the manufacture, trade, use, import and export of seven toxic chemicals (Chlordecone, Hexabromobiphenyl, Hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, Tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether, Pentachlorobenzene, Hexabromocyclododecane and Hexachlorobutadine)listed under the Stockholm Convention
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a United Nations treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
- India signed the Convention in May 2002 and ratified it in January 2006.
- POPs are organic chemical substances—toxic to both humans and wildlife—which once released into the environment ....
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