Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) show up in drinking water. We’re talking about things like natural and synthetic estrogens, bisphenol A, phthalates, and even some pesticides. They mess with our hormonal systems, even in tiny amounts \u2013 think nanograms or picograms per liter. Research from all over the world has documented this endocrine activity. Good news is, advanced water treatment, especially reverse osmosis, really helps with these water quality problems. AMPAC USA builds commercial and industrial systems specifically for these needs, and we have the certified performance to back it up.<\/p>\n
Water Research \u2013\u00a0Volume: 139 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pages: 10-18 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Published: 2018 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Publication Type: J Document type: Journal Article \u2013\u00a0DOI:\u00a010.1016\/j.watres.2018.03.056<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract: <\/p>\n The post appeared first on .<\/p>\n Source: Water Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The aquatic environment can contain numerous micropollutants and there are concerns about endocrine activity in environmental waters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-filter","category-water-treatment","tag-ro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/89541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOur water environments can contain many micropollutants. People worry about endocrine activity in environmental waters and what that might mean for human and ecosystem health. This study used both chemical analysis and in vitro bioassays to check for endocrine activity in treated wastewater, surface water, and drinking water samples. They collected these samples from six different countries: Germany, Australia, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Spain. The bioassay tests looked at seven endocrine pathways, and they chemically analyzed 58 different substances, including pesticides, medicines, and industrial compounds. Most water samples had endocrine activity below what they could measure. Only two out of six treated wastewater samples and two out of six surface water samples showed estrogenic, glucocorticoid, progestagenic, or anti-mineralocorticoid activity above the detection limit. Based on the available effect-based trigger values (EBT) for estrogenic and glucocorticoid activity, some of the wastewater and surface water samples actually went over the EBT. This suggests these environmental waters might pose a risk to ecosystem health. On the other hand, the drinking water samples didn’t show much bioassay activity, and they had very low chemical concentrations. This suggests there isn’t a risk to human endocrine health, with all samples below the relevant EBTs. All rights reserved, Elsevier<\/p>\n