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Policy options to account for multiple chemical pollutants threatening biodiversity
Summary
This review examines policy options for addressing the threat that multiple chemical pollutants — including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — pose to global biodiversity, analyzing regulatory frameworks and intervention strategies needed to account for mixture effects and cumulative chemical exposure.
Chemical pollution poses a threat to biodiversity on a global scale.
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