About the Book
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Fate, Detection and Remediation provides both the practical and theoretical aspects of the origin and removal of EDCs. The book integrates in one system all relevant research in monitoring, detection and control, and provides a multi-barrier approach to managing EDCs that helps relevant stakeholders take preventive measures for the risks associated with EDCs in the environment (e.g., water, wastewater, soil and other natural ecosystems). The book not only provides a technological solution for managing these emerging pollutants but also comprehensively treats the origin, fate, and mechanisms of EDCs.
This makes the book an indispensable source of information for researchers to develop sustainable, affordable and commercially viable monitoring and remedial systems.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Paromita Chakraborty, Girija K Bharat, Brij Mohan Sharma, Pardeep Singh
PART I: Chemistry, production, and consumption of representative EDCs
Chapter 1. Chemistry, production, and consumption of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals
Sidhi Soman, Brij Mohan Sharma, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 2. Chemistry, production, and consumption of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals
K. Ronnie Rex, Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, V. Tharmaraj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 3. Chemistry, production, and consumption of endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care products
Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, K. Mithun, Brij Mohan Sharma*
Chapter 4. Chemistry, production, and consumption of heavy metals acting as endocrine disruptors
Manisha Jain, Kriti Akansha, Girija K Bharat*
PART II: Monitoring and analytical techniques for estimation of EDC
Chapter 5. Sampling and extraction techniques for endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, R. R Parthasarathi, A. Afeez Ahamed, Mohamed Abdul Wajith, Divyash Singh, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 6. Analytical techniques for the estimation of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals
K. Ronnie Rex, Sidhi Soman, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 7. Analytical techniques for estimation of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals
K. Pavithra, K. Ronnie Rex, Sarath Chandra, V. Tharmaraj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 8. Analytical techniques for estimation of endocrine disrupting compounds in personal care products
K. Mithun, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Brij Mohan Sharma*
Chapter 9. Monitoring and analytical techniques for estimation of heavy metals acting as endocrine disruptors
Manisha Jain, Kriti Akansha and Girija K Bharat*
PART III: EDCs in the environment
Chapter 10. Environmental occurrence of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals
Sidhi Soman, K. Ronnie Rex, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 11. Environmental occurrence of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals
Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, K. Ronnie Rex, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, A. Afeez Ahamed, Paromita Chakraborty*
Chapter 12. Environmental occurrence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care products
Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, K. Mithun, Brij Mohan Sharma*
Chapter 13. Global environmental occurrence of heavy metals
Kriti Akansha, Manisha Jain, Brij Mohan Sharma, Girija K Bharat*
PART IV: Exposure Pathway, Risk assessment and Standard Guidelines of EDCs
Chapter 14. Exposure pathway and risk assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Paromita Chakraborty*, Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Divyash Singh, Mon Bera, Brij Mohan Sharma
Chapter 15. Standard guidelines for managing endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment
Avanti Roy Basu, Sidhi Soman, Mohamed Abdul Wajith, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Girija K Bharat *
PART V: Removal Methods of EDCs
Chapter 16. Different techniques for the removal of endocrine-disrupting compounds in aquatic systems
Gurudatta Singh, Monika Yadav, Virendra Kumar Mishra, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Pardeep Singh*
Chapter 17 Removal techniques of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in soil and sediment
K. Pavithra, A. Ilansuriyan, Giridharan K, Yuvan Sai Potru, Paromita Chakraborty*
Appendix A: Recommendations and way forward for India
About the Author :
Dr. Paromita Chakraborty is Professor and Head at Centre for Research in Environment, Sustainability Advocacy and Climate Change (REACH) in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India. Dr.Chakraborty leads the Environmental Science and Technology research group, and her group is intensively working on fate, transport and cost-effective remediation techniques for legacy and emerging organic contaminants including endocrine disruptors. Dr.Chakraborty is the principal investigator for projects funded by national funding agencies like DST, MoEFCC, and international funding agencies like Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Embassy and Swiss Development Cooperation. She has published 100+ scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals including Water Research, Environmental Science and Technology etc. She has edited 4 books and 25+ book chapters mostly in Springer and Elsevier publishing houses. She is an associate editor for the “Science of Total Environment and the Arabian Journal of Geosciences.
Dr. Girija K Bharat is the Managing Director of Mu Gamma Consultants, Gurugram, India. She is an international expert with three decades of experience in Water Resource Management and Environmental Management. She conducts research, capacity building and advocacies on contaminants of emerging concerns such as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), microplastics etc. She advises several Government of India ministries on water and environmental issues. She has over 120 publications that include scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals, book chapters, international reports, and newspaper articles.
Currently serving as a Marie Curie Postdoc (Global) Fellow at RECETOX, Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, and at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Dr Brij Mohan Sharma is an interdisciplinary researcher with robust expertise in chemical pollution management, natural resources management, sustainable development, and human biomonitoring, including health risk assessment of toxic chemicals. He has effectively led collaborative projects on a global scale, yielding numerous impactful peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals. Driven by a passion for advocating sustainable development goals and environmental management reforms, he actively presents and addresses chemical pollution issues, especially in developing countries, at various international forums. Dr Sharma is strongly motivated to engage with both academic and non-academic institutions, aiming to contribute to the establishment of a sustainable and prosperous society.
Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books.
