Endis-Risks is a four year project carried out by one Dutch and five Belgian research groups (see partners) in the framework of the SPSD-II research action of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office. The Endis-Risks project aims to assess the distribution and the possible effects of endocrine disrupting substances in the Scheldt estuary. Priority substances, their physico-chemical distribution (speciation within the different compartments: sediment, water, suspended solids), their concentration in biota (mysid shrimp and gobies) and their geographic distribution will be assessed. The valorisation of the Endis-Risks project will result in a thorough, integrated and multi-disciplinary description of the current status of the Scheldt estuary in relation to the issue of endocrine disruption. This study will result in a fundamental, ecotoxicological risk assessment of endocrine disrupting substances in the Scheldt estuary. The major research objectives within the project are: Analyses of endocrine disruptors in water, suspended solids, sediment and biota (mysids, gobies); In vitro evaluation of the estrogenic and androgenic potential of samples of water, suspended solids and sediment; Ecotoxicological and in situ evaluation of the effects on the resident mysid populations (short, intermediate and long-term); Risk assessment of endocrine disruptors in the Scheldt estuary.

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