“…They are now among the catalog of 'emerging pollutants' (Mai et al, 2013). CUPs are not only identified in the regions where they are applied, such as agricultural and forestry areas (Arinaitwe et al, 2016;Asman et al, 2005;Feng et al, 2016;Yao et al, 2008a), rural and urban areas (Carratala et al, 2017;Coscolla et al, 2017;Estellano et al, 2015), but also in regions far away from their sources, such as the Arctic (Hoferkamp et al, 2010;Morris et al, 2016;Walker and Nidiry, 2002;Zhong et al, 2012a), high mountains (Hageman et al, 2006), the and Indian-Pacific Ocean (Bigot et al, 2016). China produces and consumes the largest amount of CUPs in the world.…”