If you were to analyse the fat tissue from your body in a laboratory, you would find that synthetic chemicals such as DDT, HCH, PCBs, dioxins and other substances with equally daunting names have trespassed into your body without your even realising it. The collective term for such chemicals, which have the property of being persistent in the environment (resistant to degradation) is persistent organic pollutants or POPs. Today, even a new-born baby arrives in the world with a burden of these toxic human-made chemicals.

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