With negotiations under way for a United Nations treaty to control the global release of persistent organic pollutants, or POPs (SN: 12/16/00, p. 389), chemists are looking for common items to survey for these long-lived, largely fat-soluble compounds. Scientists in England have decided to look no further than the kitchen table.
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