Environmental Levels
The major sources of information on the environmental levels of POPs in Hong Kong include: reports of the EPD’s routine monitoring programmes, Government-funded consultancy studies and studies conducted by local academia.
The level of POPs contamination in the local environment (ambient air and surface soil) was generally comparable to the range reported in most other urban locations in Asia, Europe and Africa. Assessment based on available data indicated that there was unlikely to be any unacceptable ecological risk of toxicological significance associated with exposure of the local marine life to the current level of POPs contamination in the marine environment of Hong Kong.
