Environment and human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in India: a systematic review of recent and historical data
Jazyk angličtina Země Nizozemsko Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, přehledy, systematický přehled
PubMed
24525153
DOI
10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.022
PII: S0160-4120(14)00027-0
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- Bioaccumulation, Environmental contamination, Human exposure, Persistent organic pollutants,
- MeSH
- geologické sedimenty chemie MeSH
- látky znečišťující životní prostředí analýza krev MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- monitorování životního prostředí MeSH
- organické látky analýza krev MeSH
- voda chemie MeSH
- vodní organismy chemie MeSH
- vystavení vlivu životního prostředí * MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- přehledy MeSH
- systematický přehled MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Indie MeSH
- Názvy látek
- látky znečišťující životní prostředí MeSH
- organické látky MeSH
- voda MeSH
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been used in a wide range of agricultural and industrial commodities, resulting in vigorous deterioration of environment and human health. A number of studies on the occurrence of POPs confirm their presence in various environmental compartments and human body. In order to deal with this global concern, India has recently prepared the National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the Stockholm Convention. Common beliefs point at India as a hot spot of POP contamination and human exposure; however no systematic analysis was ever performed so far considering all available past data on POP occurrence. This review aims to examine the distribution pattern of POPs in multicompartment environment and human samples, meta-analysis of time trends in exposure levels to environment and humans, and cross country comparison of POP contamination with China. Based on this review, it can be concluded that the Indian environment and human population are highly contaminated by DDTs and HCHs; however scarcity of data on other POPs makes it challenging to assess their nationwide human and environmental exposure. No evidence of a general decline in DDT and HCH residues in the environment and human body come out from the meta-analysis of time trend. While comparing contamination levels between India and China, tendency towards decline in POP contamination is visible in China, unlike India.
Norwegian Institute for Water Research Gaustadalleen 21 Oslo 0349 Norway
Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment Masaryk University Brno 62500 Czech Republic
TERI University 10 Institutional Area Vasant Kunj New Delhi 110070 Delhi India
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