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18th meeting of Stockholm Convention
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- The 18th meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Review Committee (POPRC-18) to the Stockholm Convention was held in Rome, Italy.
- It included five more chemicals for listing them under the convention.
- Three of the listed chemicals (chlorpyrifos, chlorinated paraffin (beyond prescribed) and long-chain perfluoro carboxylic acids) were already nominated at the POPRC-17.
- Two chemicals — dechlorane plus, a flame retardant and UV-328, a stabilizer used in some personal care products — will be evaluated at this session.
- The UNEP’s proposal to list chlorpyrifos as POP was resisted by India.
- India argued that
- Chlorpyrifos is not a carcinogen, and its concentrations are low.
- Some of the studies in the POPRC-17 proposal showing adverse effects of chlorpyrifos were not peer reviewed.
Chlorpyrifos and India
- Chlorpyrifos was registered under the Insecticide Act of 1968 since 1977.
- Also, Anupam Verma Committee recommended its review for continued use in 2015.
- Chlorpyrifos was approved for agricultural use in 2021.
- Approval includes its use as a pesticide against pests affecting Bengal gram, rice and cotton.
- It was approved for 18 crops in India.
- It is one of the ten pesticides banned by Punjab and Haryana governments in August 2022.
- China and India are among the largest producers of chlorpyrifos.
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