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Editorial on the Research Topic Pharmaceuticals, personal care products and endocrine disrupting chemicals: The physiological consequences of exposure to pollutants in aquatic animals Water pollution is considered as one of the biggest environmental and public health problems worldwide. The main cause of the contamination is artificial chemicals. The contaminants in the environment mostly originate from industry, agriculture, hospital, and domestic wastewater (Rock et al., 2009;Chilke, 2018). Therefore, aquatic animals will inevitably be exposed to contamination through the polluted habitat. With exposure to contamination comes to a high risk of biomagnification, i.e., the accumulation of toxic substances in living organisms increases as one rises to the next trophic level, along the food chain, so that the concentration of pollutants is greater in the predator than that the prey (Drouillard, 2008). Water pollution is particularly difficult to deal with because aquatic organisms are captive to lifetime, even multigenerational exposure. The accumulation of pollutants in the tissues of organisms then exerts some adverse effects.Among these contaminants, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), such as contraceptives, medicines, perfumes, makeup, and toothpastes (

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