There has been a great effort to study the fate, the occurrence and the ecotoxicology of
emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment. Recently, several articles have focused on …

Endocrine disruption in the aquatic environment has been a much-researched topic
worldwide for the last fifteen years. We have not attempted to write a traditional review of the …

A scoping study was conducted to investigate the residues of nineteen pharmaceuticals and
personal care products (PPCPs), including 4 natural and 3 synthetic steroid estrogens, 7 …

To assess the impact of an estrogenic wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent on fish
reproduction, white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) were collected from immediately …

Difficult to measure accurately and deal with effectively, organic pollutants continue to be a
major hazard in the environment. Significantly expanded, the second edition of Organic …

An effects-directed strategy was applied to bed sediments of a polluted tributary in order to
isolate and identify the major estrogenic chemicals it discharges into the River Po, the …

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), including both natural estrogens and estrogenic
chemicals, are almost ubiquitous in the aquatic environment. In the marine bivalve Mytilus …

Chemical risk assessment is fraught with difficulty due to the problem of accounting for the
effects of mixtures. In addition to the uncertainty arising from chemical-to-chemical …

Increasing concern about endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and their effects on
humans, animals and the environment resulted in this study being conducted. Water from 7 …

A sensitive and simple method based on ultrasonication extraction with a hexane/acetone
(2: 1, v/v) mixture, followed by clean up of the extract by solid‐phase extraction (SPE) and …