ABSTRACT
The basic methods facilitate an understanding of the term endocrine disrupters and allows for a critical appraisal of the significance of compounds called endocrine disrupters. The use of chemical techniques allows for monitoring the occurrence of compounds identified as estrogenic within the environment, within organisms, in foodstuffs and associated packaging, and during experimental work where this is deemed necessary. The chapter focuses on chemical techniques that have been used for the determination of endocrine disrupters in wastewater treatment processes. Although bioassays are used mostly to identify if a compound or mixture of compounds is estrogenic rather than for direct analysis of endocrine disrupters within wastewater and sludge treatment processes, it is important to discuss them for a number of reasons. Bioassays are predominantly being used as tools to identify and confirm whether or not individual chemical compounds are Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.
