What are the Dirty Dozen chemicals in?
In the Stockholm Convention on POPs, an international agreement now bans the manufacture and use of ten chemicals and restricts the release of furans and dioxins. Though there has been this international agreement, many countries, including the United States, have not ratified it, and the use of these contaminants continues. The United States has worked on removing these chemicals and the use of POPs. The contaminants have not disappeared from the environment, mainly because other countries still use them, such as Russia, and they travel the short distance from Russia’s coast to the west coast of the United States and the arctic of Alaska. Another reason is the use of PCBs in existing electrical equipment results in the contamination of air, water, and food, day after day. As a consequence, POPs can be found in our environment and our bodies. (http://www.pops.int/) PCBs are the most commonly found of the contaminants in the environment. In 2001, 38 different states issued about 764 con
