(OCPs) between the 1950s and the 1980s for agricultural use and vector control. Since the
early 1980s, China began to ban the agricultural use of OCPs and then signed the
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001. By 2009, most
OCPs were eliminated for their production and use in China except for emergency cases.
However, in the following decade, residual OCPs have been detected in various …