Abstract

PACHECO FERREIRA, Aldo. Environmental Fate of Bioaccumulative and Persistent Substances - A Synopsis of Existing and Future Actions. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.15, pp.14-23. ISSN 1657-7027.

Bordered by risks arising from their massive technical progress, the risk society sees surprised the confidence in the science and the public authorities in the proportion of accidents occur and side effects are impossible to be anticipated and prevented. Thus, gaining prominence concepts such as chemical safety. The extent that it has reached new technologies in time and space makes it impossible to predict all its negative side effects, and in front of that uncertainty, it is the precautionary principle. The environmental and health issues related to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are an excellent example of the need for adoption of the precautionary principle, because only when the pollution with these contaminants have reached global proportions that it was impossible to prove its harmful effects to human and animal health. Aiming to reduce and eliminate some of the most dangerous POPs, the convention was signed in Stockholm in 2001, but the lack of financial resources in developing countries and the powerful lobby of multinational corporations in the chemical industry could jeopardize the implementation of this important multilateral treaty.

Keywords : pollutants; environmental health; exposure; risk assessment; public health; environmental health; risk assessment; pollutants.

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