Emerging contaminants (ECs), such as personal care products (PCPs), endocrine disrupting
compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and their transformation products, whose …

In the recent years, endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) has received increasing
attention due to their significant toxic effects on human beings and wildlife by affecting their …

A broad spectrum of organic chemicals is essential to modern society. Once discharged from
industrial, domestic and urban sources into the urban wastewater collection system they …

The occurrence of emerging or newly identified contaminants in our water resources is of
continued concern for the health and safety of consuming public. The existing conventional …

Hormone active agents constitute a dangerous class of pollutants. Among them, those
agents that mimic the action of estrogens on target cells and are part of the group of …

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

The contribution of volatilization, sorption and transformation to the removal of 16
Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in two lab-scale conventional …

Hormone steroids are a group of endocrine disruptors, which are excreted by humans and
animals. In this paper, we briefly review the current knowledge on the fate of these steroids …

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 …

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been the focus of much recent
research as concerns rise about their occurrence in bodies of water worldwide. In an effort to …