Impact of industrially based endocrine disrupting chemicals on aquatic biota

内分泌干扰物（EDCs）是对水生生物、家畜和人类的严重威胁。EDCs存在于污水处理厂排放的水和受污染土地的渗滤液中。本项目将确定受污染堆填区的EDCs对水生动物的影响。它还将通过开发适合工业、科学和管理当局应用的新的生物测定方法，确定造成生物影响的化学品。由于无处不在的污水处理厂和垃圾填埋场污染的渗滤液，本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.