Bioindicators of POPs: Monitoring in Developing Countries

The global environment is ubiquitously contaminated by a myriad of toxic chemicals, having teratogenic, carcinogenic, immunosuppressive and endocrine disruptive actions. Twelve of these persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been categorized as those that require immediate attention by a treaty adopted at a meeting of several nations held at Stockholm in 2001 and became legally binding in May 2004 after its ratification by 50 states. This timely book was designed primarily as a broad treatment of this discipline which would be accessible to almost all the people working on POPs.