Impact of industrially based endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic biota

内分泌干扰物(EDCs)对水生生物、牲畜和人类构成严重威胁。内分泌干扰物存在于污水处理厂排放的水和受污染土地的渗滤液中。该项目将确定来自受污染的垃圾填埋场的内分泌物质对水生动物的影响。它还将通过开发适用于工业、科学和监管当局应用的新的生物测试来确定对生物影响负责的化学品。由于污水处理厂和来自垃圾填埋场的受污染渗滤液无处不在，这项研究对澳大利亚州和联邦监管机构和行业具有广泛的相关性和价值。

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a serious threat to aquatic organisms, livestock and humans. EDCs are present in water discharged from sewage treatment plants and in leachate from contaminated land. This project will determine the impact of EDCs from contaminated landfill on aquatic animals. It will also identify the chemicals responsible for biological impact by developing new bio-assays suitable for industrial, scientific and regulatory authority applications. This research has wide-ranging relevance and value to Australian State and Federal regulators and industries because of the ubiquity of sewage treatment plants and contaminated leachate from landfills.