Background Since the inception of global industrialization, steroidal estrogens have become
an emerging and serious concern. Worldwide, steroid estrogens including estrone, estradiol …

Although there are no legal discharge limits for micropollutants into the environment, some
regulations have been published in the last few years. Recently, a watch list of substances …

Driven by the growing demand for food products of animal origin, industrial livestock and
poultry production has become increasingly popular and is on the track of becoming an …

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) which contain diverse organic
groups, such as antibiotics, hormones, antimicrobial agents, synthetic musks, etc., have …

Characteristic emerging pollutants at low concentration have raised much attention for
causing a bottleneck in water remediation, especially in complex water matrices where high …

The presence of pharmaceutical residues in various environmental compartments is an
issue of increasing concern. The widespread occurrence of these compounds in water and …

There are growing concerns about the increasing trends of emerging micropollutants in the
environment due to their potential negative impacts on natural ecosystems and humans …

The voluminous anthropogenic activities and non-regulated discharge of emerging
pharmaceutical pollutants have led to deterioration of water quality characteristics and …

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are pollutants with estrogenic or androgenic
activity at very low concentrations and are emerging as a major concern for water quality …

Natural estrogens such as estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), and the synthetic
one, 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), are excreted by humans and animals and enter into …