Current Trends in Steroidal 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) Removal from the Environment: A Review

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Wasiu A. Abibu
Gafar Bamigbade
Amos O. Kolawole
Taiwo Ajayi
Abdul W. Sakariyau

Abstract

Emerging contaminants have posed major environmental and health challenges to human and aquatic lives. They include pharmaceuticals, endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), persistent environmental pollutants and many more. EE2 is an example of an endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) increasingly gaining acceptance and used to augment the deficiencies of other reproductive hormones. EE2 constitutes environmental nuisance via discharge into aquatic bodies, thus, threatening aquatic lives and resulting in health defects in human. It is worthy of note that previous researchers have channeled their studies to identifying ways of expelling EE2 from the environment. However, they remain persistent in the environment. The current review examined biological, chemical, physical and nanotechnological approaches in expelling EE2 from the environment. All methods discussed have been efficient in EE2 removal. From the review, both independent and combinatorial approaches in EE2 removal has yielded efficient results.

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Abibu, W. A., Bamigbade, G. ., Kolawole , A. O., Ajayi, T., & Sakariyau, A. W. (2021). Current Trends in Steroidal 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) Removal from the Environment: A Review. Applied Environmental Research, 43(2), 130–158. https://doi.org/10.35762/AER.2021.43.2.10
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