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Why do harmful chemicals concentrate as we go up in a food chain ?

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Harmful chemical concentrate in the trophic levels of food by the process of biological concentration or bio-magnification. The Process of entry of a non-biodegradable chemical into a food chain and its getting accumulated at successive trophic levels, reaching the maximum quantity in the top most level is biological magnification.

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