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PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN EGYPT - AN OVERVIEW

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Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation

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Over the past few decades, scientists around the world have revealed the sinister impacts that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) could inflect on man and his environment.

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  1. Environmental Impact Assessment Unit, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

    Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabrze, Poland

    Irena Twardowska

  2. Center for Study of Metals in the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, U.S.A.

    Herbert E. Allen

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.

    Max M. Häggblom

  4. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabrze, Poland

    Sebastian Stefaniak

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Ahmed, M.T. (2006). PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN EGYPT - AN OVERVIEW. In: Twardowska, I., Allen, H.E., Häggblom, M.M., Stefaniak, S. (eds) Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation. NATO Science Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4728-2_2

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