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Endocrine Disrupting Activity of Mixtures Composed of Pharmaceuticals and Nanoplastics
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This study investigated the combined endocrine-disrupting activity of pharmaceutical compounds mixed with nanoplastics, examining how the mixture behaves differently from individual components. Nanoplastics can adsorb and concentrate endocrine-disrupting chemicals from the environment, potentially delivering combined hormonal effects to organisms that ingest them.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are defined as “an exogenous chemical or mixture of chemicals that can interfere with any aspect of the hormone action” [...]
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