18. Da Nang, Bien Hoa, and Phu Cat, Vietnam - ASIA

Contamination is due to the spillage of the defoliant ‘Agent Orange’. The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence found an average dioxin level of about 35,000 ppt TEQ at former US airbases Da Nang, Bien Hoa, and Phu Cat.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Chemical industry

Data about POPs levels in different environment compartments:

  Soil/sediment
  Food (milk, eggs)
  Wildlife (fish)
  Human tissues (breast milk, blood)

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants:

  Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (dioxins)