“…Bisphenol A (BPA), another environmental estrogen and an endocrine disruptor, is a synthetic chemical primarily used to produce polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins (Cooper et al, 2008;EC, 2003;Melnick et al, 2002). Due to the diverse uses of BPA in consumer products, it has been regularly detected in a wide range of environmental matrices, including air, water, sewage sludge and sediments (Huang et al, 2012;Lee et al, 2013;Xiong et al, 2015), even human blood and tissues (Vandenberg et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2013).…”