A review of pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting compounds: sources, effects, removal, and detections

JO Tijani, OO Fatoba, LF Petrik - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2013 - Springer
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 …

Biologically directed environmental monitoring, fate, and transport of estrogenic endocrine disrupting compounds in water: a review

CG Campbell, SE Borglin, FB Green, A Grayson… - Chemosphere, 2006 - Elsevier
Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are contaminants that may be hormonally active at
low concentrations and are emerging as a major concern for water quality. Estrogenic EDCs …

Dairy wastewater, aquaculture, and spawning fish as sources of steroid hormones in the aquatic environment

EP Kolodziej, T Harter, DL Sedlak - Environmental science & …, 2004 - ACS Publications
A suite of androgens, estrogens, and progestins were measured in samples from dairy
farms, aquaculture facilities, and surface waters with actively spawning fish using gas …

Steroid estrogens, nonylphenol ethoxylate metabolites, and other wastewater contaminants in groundwater affected by a residential septic system on Cape Cod, MA

CH Swartz, S Reddy, MJ Benotti, H Yin… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
Septic systems serve approximately 25% of US households and may be an important source
of estrogenic and other organic wastewater contaminants (OWC) to groundwater. We …

Anaerobic biotransformation of estrogens

CP Czajka, KL Londry - Science of the total environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Estrogens are important environmental contaminants that disrupt endocrine systems and
feminize male fish. We investigated the potential for anaerobic biodegradation of the …

Fate of steroid estrogens in Australian inland and coastal wastewater treatment plants

O Braga, GA Smythe, AI Schäfer… - Environmental Science & …, 2005 - ACS Publications
A comparison of estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), and 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) removal at
a coastal enhanced primary and inland advanced sewage treatment plant (STP) is reported …

Steroids in a typical swine farm and their release into the environment

S Liu, GG Ying, LJ Zhou, RQ Zhang, ZF Chen, HJ Lai - water research, 2012 - Elsevier
The occurrence and fate of fourteen androgens, four estrogens, five glucocorticoids and five
progestagens were investigated by rapid resolution liquid chromatography-tandem mass …

Leaching of estrogenic hormones from manure-treated structured soils

J Kjaer, P Olsen, K Bach, HC Barlebo… - Environmental …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The threat to the aquatic environment posed by root zone leaching of estrogens from
manure-treated fields has hitherto been overlooked. The steroid hormones 17β-estradiol …

Sorption of acetaminophen, 17α-ethynyl estradiol, nalidixic acid, and norfloxacin to silica, alumina, and a hydrophobic medium

O Lorphensri, J Intravijit, DA Sabatini, TCG Kibbey… - Water research, 2006 - Elsevier
Two pure minerals and a hydrophobic medium were selected to study sorption of
pharmaceuticals. The sorption of four pharmaceuticals, acetaminophen (analgesic), 17α …

Transport of testosterone and estrogen from dairy-farm waste lagoons to groundwater

S Arnon, O Dahan, S Elhanany, K Cohen… - Environmental …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Although concentrated animal feeding operations constantly generate physiologically active
steroidal hormones, little is known of their environmental fate. Estrogen and testosterone …