Consequently the chemical contamination builds to higher levels in these organisms. Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, whose traditional diets are heavy in fatty foods and who often have no alternatives for nourishment, thus have some of the highest recorded levels of POPs. Yet they are hundreds or thousands of kilometres from where these pesticides and industrial chemicals were released, and they certainly received little benefit from the chemicals' original use. The Stockholm Convention addresses the challenge posed by these toxic chemicals by starting with 12 of the worst POPs ever created. Nine of the POPs are pesticides: aldrin, chlordane, DDT (famous for decimating bald eagles, ospreys,.
