Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are found in every environmental medium and are
chemically diverse. Their presence in water resources can negatively impact the health of …

In vitro bioassays are increasingly used for water quality monitoring. Surface water samples
often need to be enriched to observe an effect and solid-phase extraction (SPE) is …

The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012.
The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of …

The assessment of water quality is crucial for safeguarding drinking water resources and
ecosystem integrity. To this end, sample preparation and extraction is critically important …

Background Wastewater can contain a complex mixture of organic micropollutants, with both
chemical analysis and effect-based methods needed to identify relevant micropollutants and …

A plethora of in vitro bioassays are developed in the context of chemical risk assessment
and clinical diagnostics to test effects on different biological processes. Such assays can …

Recently, bioassay techniques have been gaining prominence in assessing water toxicity,
offering comprehensive evaluations without identifying the individual chemical component …

There is ongoing concern about the consequences of mutations in humans and biota arising
from environmental exposures to industrial and other chemicals. Genetic toxicity tests have …

A novel sample preparation procedure relying on Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) combining
different sorbent materials on a sequential-based cartridge was optimized and validated for …

In vitro bioassays are increasingly applied to detect endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
in environmental waters. Most studies use human nuclear receptor assays, but this raises …