Background
In Latin America and the Caribbean, POPs monitoring to establish spatial trends have not yet been carried out. In addition, the matrices chosen by the Stockholm Convention Conference of the Parties. for the GMP (air, breast milk and human blood), have only been analyzed on a few occasions. There are other national priorities for POPs analysis, such as food and water or soil monitoring.
For breast milk, UNEP, in collaboration with WHO, initiated a study to generate breast milk data for the 12 POPs listed in the Convention. Samples were analyzed at the State Laboratory for Chemical and Veterinary Food Analysis (CVUA) in Freiburg, Germany, the WHO reference laboratory for POPs analysis in human milk.
Executive organization of the project:
UNEP – Chemicals (global coordinator).
UNEP – Chemicals (global coordinator).
Regional Coordinator:
Stockholm Convention Regional Center for Latin America and the Caribbean – Uruguay
Stockholm Convention Regional Center for Latin America and the Caribbean – Uruguay
Main objectives of the GMP I project
- Regional capacity building in the analysis and generation of data for POPs in air and breast milk for the Global POPs Monitoring Plan (GMP) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Identify trends in concentrations over time.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the Convention.
- Contribute to the global report presented to the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention.
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Participating countries
