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Endocrine Disrupting Effects of the Industrial Wastewater Effluents Discharged from the Treatment Plant  

Oh Seung-Min (성균관대학교 약학대학)
Kim Gi-Suh (성균관대학교 약학대학)
Ryu Byung Taek (성균관대학교 약학대학)
Jang Hyung Seog (성균관대학교 약학대학)
Lee Hee-Sung (식품의약품 안전청)
Chung Kyu-Hyuck (성균관대학교 약학대학)
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Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology / v.19, no.4, 2004 , pp. 375-382 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate potential endocrine disrupting effects of several industrial wastewater effluents discharged from cosmetic, plaiting, paint, textile industry using EROD bioassay and E-Screen assay. The results of E-screen assay showed that textile industrial wastewater could act as a full agonist and cosmetics and plaiting industrial wastewater could act as a partial agonist. On the contrary, the wastewater discharged from paint industry did not show any estrogenic effect. Estrogenic activity in the effluents of cosmetic and paint industrial wastewater was lower than that in the influents indicating that the wastewater treatment process minimized the effects of discharges on water quality. Despite of these results, it was recognized that wastewater treatment was not always minimize toxic impact. In this study, increased estrogenic effect was observed in the effluents of plating and textile wastewater, and EROD activity was increased in the effluents of cosmetic and plating wastewater.
Keywords
endocrine disrupting effects; industrial wastewater effluents; EROD bioassay; E-Screen assay;
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