Brussels, 18/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has just submitted its ratification instrument and will become a full member of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in three months. The POP are industrial chemical products (such as PCBs), pesticides (such as DDT, chlordane or toxaphene) and contaminants and by-products such as dioxin and furans, which can accumulate in living organisms and the environment and produce long term toxic effects, particularly...