Introduction<br>Paromita Chakraborty, Girija K Bharat, Brij Mohan Sharma, Pardeep Singh<br>PART I: Chemistry, production, and consumption of representative EDCs<br>Chapter 1. Chemistry, production, and consumption of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>Sidhi Soman, Brij Mohan Sharma, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br>Chapter 2. Chemistry, production, and consumption of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>K. Ronnie Rex, Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, V. Tharmaraj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br>Chapter 3. Chemistry, production, and consumption of endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care products<br>Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, K. Mithun, Brij Mohan Sharma*<br>Chapter 4. Chemistry, production, and consumption of heavy metals acting as endocrine disruptors<br>Manisha Jain, Kriti Akansha, Girija K Bharat<sup>*</sup><br>PART II: Monitoring and analytical techniques for estimation of EDC<br>Chapter 5. Sampling and extraction techniques for endocrine-disrupting chemicals<br>Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, R. R Parthasarathi, A. Afeez Ahamed, Mohamed Abdul Wajith, Divyash Singh, Paromita Chakraborty*<br>Chapter 6. Analytical techniques for the estimation of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>K. Ronnie Rex, Sidhi Soman, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br>Chapter 7. Analytical techniques for estimation of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>K. Pavithra, K. Ronnie Rex, Sarath Chandra, V. Tharmaraj, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br>Chapter 8. Analytical techniques for estimation of endocrine disrupting compounds in personal care products<br>K. Mithun, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Brij Mohan Sharma*<br>Chapter 9. Monitoring and analytical techniques for estimation of heavy metals acting as endocrine disruptors<br>Manisha Jain, Kriti Akansha and Girija K Bharat<sup>*</sup><br> <br>PART III: EDCs in the environment<br>Chapter 10. Environmental occurrence of pesticidal endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>Sidhi Soman, K. Ronnie Rex, Paromita Chakraborty*<br>Chapter 11. Environmental occurrence of industrial endocrine disrupting chemicals<br>Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, K. Ronnie Rex, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, A. Afeez Ahamed, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br>Chapter 12. Environmental occurrence of endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care products<br>Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, K. Mithun, Brij Mohan Sharma*<br>Chapter 13. Global environmental occurrence of heavy metals<br>Kriti Akansha, Manisha Jain, Brij Mohan Sharma, Girija K Bharat<sup>*</sup><br>PART IV: Exposure Pathway, Risk assessment and Standard Guidelines of EDCs<br>Chapter 14. Exposure pathway and risk assessment of endocrine-disrupting chemicals<br>Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup>, Sarath Chandra, K. Pavithra, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Divyash Singh, Mon Bera, Brij Mohan Sharma<br>Chapter 15. Standard guidelines for managing endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment<br>Avanti Roy Basu, Sidhi Soman, Mohamed Abdul Wajith, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Girija K Bharat *<br>PART V: Removal Methods of EDCs<br>Chapter 16. Different techniques for the removal of endocrine-disrupting compounds in aquatic systems<br>Gurudatta Singh, Monika Yadav, Virendra Kumar Mishra, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Pardeep Singh*<br>Chapter 17 Removal techniques of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in soil and sediment<br> K. Pavithra, A. Ilansuriyan, Giridharan K, Yuvan Sai Potru, Paromita Chakraborty<sup>*</sup><br> <br>Appendix A: Recommendations and way forward for India