POPs treaty.(Health Risks and Environmental )(Persistent organic pollutants) From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Williams, Rose Marie | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Pollution in the Great Lakes during the 1960s became a serious enough threat to warrant cooperative action between the United States and Canada. The focus was on reducing the prevalence of toxic pollutants including untreated sewage, industrial discharges, and agricultural chemicals. In Lake Erie life systems collapsed and newspapers declared the lake was "dead." (1)

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Injury to predator species included reproductive failures and populati...