AR-News: UK) Dirty dozen chemicals banned by U.N. pact May 17

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Reuters 
16 May 2004 09:56:20 GMT

STOCKHOLM, May 16 (Reuters) - So-called persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 
are among the most dangerous of all man-made products or wastes, causing 
deaths, diseases and birth defects among humans and animals. 
The Stockholm Convention, signed in the Swedish capital in 2001, aims to ban 
or strictly control production, import, export, disposal and use of POPs. 
The 12 POPs are: 
ALDRIN - A pesticide applied to soils to kill termites, grasshoppers and 
other insect pests. It can also kill birds, fish and humans. In one incident, 
aldrin-treated rice is thought to have killed hundreds of shorebirds along Texas's 
Gulf Coast. 
CHLORDANE - Used extensively to control termites and as a broad insecticide 
on a range of crops. Tests show it can kill birds and fish and may affect the 
human immune system and could be a carcinogen.



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