Plastic pollution control has been on top of the political agenda in China. In January 2020, China announced a phased ban on the production and usage of various types of single-use plastics as a solution to environmental pollution problems. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 seems to be a new obstacle to the ban on single-use plastic products. To basically satisfied the daily necessities and contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 under the background of the regular epidemic prevention and control in China, online ordering, contactless delivery and wearing mask have become an important and feasible way of daily life. However, the unrestrained use of disposable plastic bags, lunch boxes and masks within the nationwide quarantine leads to hundreds of millions of plastics wastes every day. The potential environmental pollution caused by the use of disposable plastic products during the pandemic should arouse social concern. The Chinese government should manage environmental protection in parallel with anti-pandemic endeavors as the situation of the pandemic evolves.
The systemic, toxicity of 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) following subchronic dietary exposure was investigatedin Sprague-Dawley rats. PCB 126 was administered to rats ofboth sexes at concentrations of 0.1, 1.0, 10, or 100 ppb intheir diet for 13 weeks. Another group of rats received a loadingdose of 5 µg PCB/kg body wt at the start of the feedingperiod followed by exposure to 10 ppb PCB diet for the sameperiod of time as the other groups. Growth suppression and decreasedfood consumption were observed in the highest dose groups ofboth sexes. Increased organ/body weight ratios for the liveroccurred in the 10 and 100 ppb groups of both sexes. Rats ofboth sexes exposed to the highest dose of the PCB also exhibitedincreased relative kidney, spleen, and brain weights. Hematologicaland most serum biochemical changes were confined to the 100ppb groups. These included elevated alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin,cholesterol, and aspartate aminotransferase, and decreased serumglucose, hemoglobin, erythrocytes, hematocrit, and platelets.A dose-dependent increase in liver ethoxyre-sorufin-O-deethylaseactivity was observed in rats of both sexes starting at 0.1ppb. A dose-dependent increase in liver uroporphyrin levelswas observed in both sexes and significant changes occurredin the female rats at 1.0 ppb and higher dose groups. Decreasedliver vitamin A was observed in the 10 ppb group and higherin both sexes. Kidney vitamin A was elevated in the 100 ppbgroup. No statistically significant changes were noted in concentrationsof brain biogenic amines. PCB 126 residues were 10-fold higherin liver than in fat. Treatment-related histopathological changeswere observed in the thymus, thyroid, bone marrow, and liverof rats exposed to the 10 ppb diet, but increased frequencyof mild changes was observed in most of these tissues at the1.0 ppb level. Based on the above data, the no adverse effectlevel was judged to be 0.1 ppb in the diet or 0.01 µg/kgbody wt/day. 相似文献