Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) (EU) 2019/1021

The purpose of the permanent organic pollutants (POP) directive No. 2019/1021 published in the European Union countries is to prohibit the production, placing on the market and use of persistent organic pollutants and to protect human health and the environment from these pollutants by removing or restricting them as soon as possible. Some chemicals are transported far from their sources, beyond international borders and persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web and pose a danger to human health and the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to protect human health and the environment against these pollutants.

In the last update of the said directive, certain definitions and terminologies have been harmonized with the REACH directive (registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals) and the European Union waste framework directive.

Persistent organic pollutants (POP) are toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment around the world. Because they can be carried by wind and water, many of them can travel far from where they are used and released, affecting people and nature there. It also stays in the environment for a long time and accumulates by passing from one species to another through the food chain. Therefore, especially developed countries strive to reduce their quantity and eliminate their production, use and release.

Especially II. After World War II, thousands of synthetic chemicals came into commercial use and became widely used in industrial production. Many of these chemicals have proven beneficial in pest and disease control and crop production. However, they have had unpredictable effects on human health and the environment.

In fact, these pollutants include a range of substances such as:

• Intentionally manufactured chemicals used in agriculture, disease control, manufacturing or industrial processes. For example, chemicals used in electrical transformers and large capacitors, as hydraulic and heat exchange fluids, and as additives to paints and lubricants.
• Printed circuit boards (PCBs).
• Stubborn and some poisonous insects drugs used as counter-killers (eg DDT).
• Inadvertently produced chemicals such as dioxins from certain industrial processes and combustion. For example, incineration of medical waste, or disposal of garbage by incineration.

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