Screening-level exposure-based prioritization to identify potential POPs, vPvBs and planetary boundary threats among Arctic contaminants

A report that reviews Arctic contaminants that are not currently regulated as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under international treaties was recently published by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). We evaluated 464 individual chemicals mentioned in the AMAP report according to hazard profiles for POPs, very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) chemicals, and two novel and distinct hazard profiles we derived from...