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Hindustan Times, Mumbai, March, 2017 :- India may have issued directives to ban the use and manufacture of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to reduce pollution, but decades of using these toxic industrial chemicals in electrical and electronic equipments have contaminated the country’s soil, air, and possibly water as well.Analysis of soil samples from seven cities, including New Delhi and Mumbai, by SRM University, Chennai, and UK and Chinese institutes discovered that the average concentration of PCBs in Indian soil was almost twice the amount found in global background soil — at 12 ng/g (nanogram per gram) dry weight as against 6ng/g — but as much as that recorded in Pakistan and urban areas of China.

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