Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Persistent Organic Pollutant commonly known as POPs are group of toxic organic chemicals which persist for a long time in the environment. These compounds can migrate into the food chain and then into the human body, where they bioaccumulate in fatty tissues.

POPs can be present in a wide variety of materials ranging from plastics, textiles, furniture upholstery to soil and sediment.

Businesses dealing with and classifying a waste, must determine whether it contains POPs. If present above regulatory limits and classed as hazardous, it needs to be disposed of accordingly. GOV Guidance: Identify and classify waste containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Veritas Laboratory Services based in Bartley, Hampshire, UK can help you identify and determine the level of POPs in your waste and the presently regulated target list is as follows:

Target POPs:

• Alkanes (chloro C10 – C13) /short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs)                    

• Hexabromobiphenyl  

• Hexachlorobutadiene

• Hexabromocyclododecane    

• Hexachlorobenzene   

• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)      

• Polychlorinated napthalenes             

• Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)               

• Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and PFOS derivatives 

• Pesticides: Aldrin, Chlordane, Chlordecone,  Dieldrin, DDT (1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane), Endosulfan, Endrin, Hexachlorocyclohexanes (alpha, beta, gamma and delta), Heptachlor, Mirex, Pentachlorobenzene, Toxaphene

• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers

We can provide all of the above analysis in-house on a standard 7-day turnaround.

Please contact us for more information or a competitive quote customerservices@veritaslabs.co.uk