What is it about?
Firstly to quantify the volume of PCBs contaminated transformers oil in the Kathmandu Valley and secondly to explore the knowledge about PCBs contamination in transformer oil and its impacts on human health and environment among occupational linked workers (NEA employees and welding workshop workers) in the Kathmandu valley and identifying areas where awareness about the issue needs to be improved.
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Why is it important?
The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which including PCBs. Nepal being the party, government should take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of POPs into the environment. Therefore this research provide such information to the government to help in elimination of PCBs.
Perspectives
Conducting this research and writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-author, who is also a national chemical expert and has work with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) for many years in Nepal.
Laxman KC
ScHEM
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This page is a summary of: PCBs Contaminantion of Transformer Oil and its Occupational Health and Safety Status in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, International Journal of Environment, December 2014, Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL),
DOI: 10.3126/ije.v3i4.11727.
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