Central Pollution Control Board commissions NRTOL

Central Pollution Control Board today commissioned its National Reference Trace Organics Laboratory, the first in the country to detect ultra trace organic pollutants particularly Dioxins and Furans.

The laboratory has been developed in collaboration with Indo-German Bilateral Programme -- GTZ-ASEM and with the assistance of Japanese Debt Relief Grant.

The Stockholm Convention has identified several chemical compounds as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) which are specially toxic more to the environment and hazardous to human health, CPCB Director S D Makhijani said.

He said the main objective of the laboratory was to cater to the need of the assessment of POP emission from various industrial and other sources as well as their levels in Indian environment to evolve strategies for mitigation of pollution.

The laboratory is equipped with highly sophisticated instruments like gas chromatograph-High Resolution Mass Spectrophotometer, High Performance Liquid Chromatograph, Gas Chromatograph to carry out the tests.

The POPs are of concern globally for high persistence in the environment, do not disintegrate easily and cause serious health problems, both short term and life long.

The training programmes and visit of CPCB scientists to the laboratories in Germany and Canada had helped in conceptualising the design and requirements of the laboratory, Makhijani said.

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