National Implementation Plan – Stockholm Conventionen on Persistent Organic Pollutants

National Implementation Plan – Stockholm Conventionen on Persistent Organic Pollutants

4 Abbreviations and measurement units

Abbreviations

AEPS Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy

AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

BAT Best available techniques

BEP Best environmental practice

DDE, DDD Degradation products of DDT

DDT 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)ethane

Dioxin The term covers polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and polychlorinated dibenzofuran

EPER European Pollutant Emission Register

HCB Hexachlorobenzene

HCH Hexachlorocyclohexane

PAH Polyaromatic hydrocarbons

PCB Polychlorinated biphenyles

PCDD Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin

PCDF Polychlorinated dibenzofuranes

POP Persistent organic pollutant

PRTR Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

TDI Tolerable Daily Intake

TEF Toxicity factor

TEQ Toxicity equivalent

TWI Tolerable Weekly Intake

Measurement units

I-TEQ Toxicity equivalence: Unit expressing total toxicity of dioxin in a sample weighted on the basis of the international toxicity-weighting system for toxicity of individual types of dioxin.

Total-TEQ Unit corresponding to WHO-TEQ

WHO-TEQ Unit expressing total toxicity of dioxin and dioxin-like PCB in a sample weighted on the basis of the WHO toxicity-weighting system for toxicity of individual types of dioxin.

mg milligram = 10^-³ g

μg microgram = 10^-6

ng nanogram = 10^-⁹ g

pg picogram = 10^-¹² g

Nm³ Normal cubic meter