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Addressing the environmental risk of persistent organic pollutants in China

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The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) was adopted in 2001. This year is the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention. Until now, 22 chemicals or chemical categories have been listed as POPs in the Stockholm Convention. The POPs Research Center was established in Tsinghua University in the same year when the Convention was adopted. In the last ten years, much work has been done by Chinese researchers to understand the environmental risk of POPs in China. This article aims to review the recent research progress of our POPs Research Center and some other Chinese researchers’ studies in addressing the environmental risk of POPs, including the priority screening and inventory study of POPs, monitoring and modeling of POPs pollution and exposure, and environmental risk assessment and modeling of POPs. Although great advances in addressing the environmental risk of POPs have been made in recent years, we are still facing quite a few problems, such as data scarcity and uncertainty in environmental risk assessment of POPs. The study on the effect of POPs mixtures is in its infancy and currently POPs are usually assessed from legal perspective by risk assessment of single chemicals. These problems should be well addressed by further efforts. Further studies should also be taken in future to study environment risk of POPs by considering aspects of coupled dynamics between climate processes and POPs. Such sound scientific, riskbased information can support decision-making aiming to effectively minimize the risk level of POPs.

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Professor Gang YU received his B.S. in organic chemistry from Nanjing University in 1986, his M.S. in environmental chemistry from Nanjing University in 1989 and his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Chemistry from Research Centre for Eco-environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992. He is currently the dean of the School of Environment, Tsinghua University and the director of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Research Center, Tsinghua University. His research interests include environmental analysis and risk assessment of POPs, POPs wastes disposal technologies, and POPs decision supporting policy. Prof. YU has published more than 200 papers. He has served as co-chair of the UNEP Expert Group on Best Available Technology and Best Environmental Practice (BAT/BEP) relevant to Unintentional POPs, an editor in POPs section of the journal Chemosphere, the chair of the Professional Committee of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, deputy director of the Expert Group of Resource & Environment for eleven-five national high technology development plan (863) in China, and vice chairmen for Commission on Environmental Chemistry in Chinese Chemical Society.

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Wang, B., Huang, J., Deng, S. et al. Addressing the environmental risk of persistent organic pollutants in China. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 6, 2–16 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-011-0370-y

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