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The goal of this assessment of the state-of-the-science is to pinpoint the origins, prevalence, and concentrations of EDCs, as well as any possible public health dangers connected to drinking water and aquatic food sources from Nigerian inland lakes.103 eligible publications were chosen for this study out of a total of 6024 articles that were found in scientific databases.From drinking water, river sediments, and aquatic food species from Nigerian rivers, eleven (11) types of EDCs (OCPs, PCBs, PBDEs, PAHs, BPA, OTs, PEs, PCs, PPCPs, sterols, and n-alkanes) were found, demonstrating that OCPs were the most investigated and reported EDCsHPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC-FID, GC-ECD, and GC-MS were the analytical techniques employed, and it was determined that all of the EDCs were from anthropogenic sources. The biggest percentage of toxicological effects found were teratogenic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic (54.4%); the lowest percentages were obesogenic (4.3%) and reproductive/endocrine disrupting (15.2%).

Public health is seriously at risk when toxins with anthropogenic origins are released into the environment. A class of environmental contaminants known as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with the synthesis, metabolism, excretion, and other activities of hormones in exposed species. These interactions eventually have negative impacts on physiology, metabolism, neurobehavioral problems, development, reproduction, and other aspects of health and disease. EDCs, for instance, have been linked to outcomes such as cancer, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, birth abnormalities, infertility, early menopause in women, mortality, and morbidity in those exposed.

The bulk of the local populace of Nigeria, a developing nation with a limited supply of potable municipal water, rely heavily on potentially contaminated inland water sources for drinking and household water supplies. These possibly contaminated inland waters are a major source of aquatic food resources (fish, shrimp, prawns, crabs, periwinkles, and oysters), raising serious questions about food quality and posing a risk to the public's health. This is due to the fact that environmental norms and laws are not consistently upheld in many developing nations, including Nigeria, and that quick anthropogenic activity has led to the discharge of a variety of environmental toxins into inland waterways. No matter how they got there, where they came from, or whether they were originally intended for use in consumer products, a significant amount of these contaminants end up in the aquatic environment, bioaccumulate, and travel through subsequent links in the food chain, having toxicological and physiological effects on people and wildlife that rely on these water sources for survival.

It's interesting to note that this rise may be connected to Nigeria's rising rates of illness and death brought on by waterborne pollutants and infectious diseases.