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 …

This article reviews studies focusing on the removal performance of natural estrogens in
municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Key factors influencing removal include …

Abstract Effect-based methods including cell-based bioassays, reporter gene assays and
whole-organism assays have been applied for decades in water quality monitoring and …

In vitro assays are broadly used tools to evaluate the estrogenic activity in Waste Water
Treatment Plant (WWTP) effluents and their receiving rivers. Since potencies of individual …

Chemical (gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, GC–MS) and biological (E-Screen
assay) analyses were used to determine the concentrations of 15 endocrine disrupting …

Various chemicals are known to impact biological systems disrupting normal homeostasis,
especially the endocrine system, called endocrine disrupting chemicals. Endocrine …

Natural and synthetic steroidal estrogens (estrone, 17β‐estradiol and 17α‐ethinylestradiol)
are endocrine disrupters, that are discharged consistently from the sewage treatment works …

We report a survey on the occurrence of estrogens (estrone, E1; 17β-estradiol, E2; 17α-
ethynylestradiol, EE2) and xenoestrogens (bisphenol-A, BPA; 4-t-octylphenol, 4-t-OP; 4 …

The growing use of recycled water in large urban centres requires comprehensive public
health risk assessment and management, an important aspect of which is the assessment …

The Trametes versicolor-derived laccase-catalyzed oxidation of natural estrogens (estrone—
E1; 17β-estradiol—E2; and estriol—E3) and a synthetic estrogen (17α-ethinylestradiol …