Hormones and Pharmaceuticals Generated by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Transport in Water and Soil / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780387928333 Publisher: Springer New York Publication date: 06/15/2009 Series: Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology , #1 Edition description: 2009 Pages: 138 Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d) Hormones and Pharmaceuticals Generated by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Transport in Water and Soil examines how hormones, antibiotics and pharmaceuticals generated from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) of cattle, poultry, swine and aquaculture are transported in water and soil. Little is known of the environmental fate of the tons of physiologically active steroid hormones released each year. In their own regard, in the last 20 years considerable attention has been given to a wide variety of natural and anthropomorphic agents known as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Until the contribution of steroid hormones to the environment are better defined, it will be difficult to quantify the exact impact of EDCs. While some advances in the understanding