Meanwhile, pharma products also generate non-degradable waste materials – known as environmentally persistent pharmaceutical pollutants ... with the global environment." They also hope to ...

These substances join a list of 12 other so-called persistent organic pollutants, or POPS, that are prohibited under a 2001 international treaty known as the Stockholm Convention. UN Environment ...

USC researchers have found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—synthetic toxic chemicals often found in food sources and stored in body fat — are associated with long term higher blood pressure ...