Endocrine disrupting compounds and other emerging contaminants in the environment: a survey on new monitoring strategies and occurrence data.
An overview of Toxicity Identification and Evaluation (TIE) procedures, used for the effect-based analysis of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in environmental samples, is presented. Future trends in advanced chemical analysis of EDCs and some emerging contaminants are outlined. The review also gives an overview of concentration levels found in environmental samples and discusses the correlation of calculated estrogenicity (based on chemical analysis of target EDCs) with that measured by various bioassays.
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Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. mpeqam@cid.csic.es
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Lopez De Alda
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Barceló
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D000818:Animals; D004702:Endocrine Glands / Q000187:drug effects*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans
D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal