The Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a programme that enables collection of comparable monitoring data from all regions of the world to assess the effectiveness of the Stockholm Convention in minimizing human and environmental exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
It provides a harmonized framework for the collection of comparable measurement data in air, human milk and blood and other media.
It is also an entry point into food chains and a medium of global transport of POPs loadings to the environment.
The surveys include human breast milk samples from a wide range of countries with large differences in food consumption patterns and environmental levels of POPs.
[4] Human biomonitoring under the Global Monitoring Programme is a principal subject of the Safe Planet Campaign Body Burden Forum.