The Guidelines for Developing a National Protocol were developed by WHO in cooperation with the UN Environment Programme, UNEP. These Guidelines were prepared and revised in 2007 for the Fourth WHO-Coordinated Survey of Human Milk for Persistent Organic Pollutants, POPs. Of particular interest are the Background to the Stockholm Convention on POPs, the Summary and the Annexes: Annex 1 on The Value of Breastfeeding, Annex 2 with the List of POPs and Annex 10 For Additional References and Reading:

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