Persistent Organic Pollutants, including: Ddt, Polychlorinated Biphenyl, Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins, Lindane, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, ... Organic Pollutants, Organotin Chemistry

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More info: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. Because of this, they have been observed to persist in the environment, to be capable of long-range transport, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, biomagnify in food chains, aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and toxaphene. Individuals with elevated levels of persistent organic pollutants (DDT, dioxins, PCBs and Chlordane, among others) in their body were found to be up to 38 times more likely to be insulin resistant than individuals with low levels of these pollutants, though the study did not demonstrate a cause and effect relationship. According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, type 2 diabetes is on the list of presumptive diseases associated with exposure to Agent Orange (which contained 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin) in the Vietnam War. * International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) * Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants * , Environmental Working Group - POPs/PBT investigation * , The PAN Pesticides Database * , Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants * , POP monitoring in the Alpine region (Europe)