Persistent Pollutants

Our modern and industrialised society use and produce a high amount of chemicals, which may be harmful to the environment and human health.

Several chemicals are degraded very slowly and therefore they tend to accumulate in animals, and to pass through the food web. Such chemicals are called persistent pollutants.

Persistant pollutants include heavy metals, organohalogen compounds and other organic pollutants. NILU has a specialised laboratory to handle most of the persistent pollutants in environmental samples, food sampling and emission samples