在实验室建造的淡水生态系统中,遗留和新型制阻燃剂:分布,生物积累和热量转移
Shanqi Zhou1, Mengru Fu1, Siyuan Ling2
1State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Water research
|June 10, 2023
概括
制阻燃剂 (BFRs) 在水生食物网中生物累积,构成风险. 这项研究显示了一些BFR的热量稀释,但强调了由于生物积累因素的持续环境问题.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 生态毒理学 生态毒理学
- 环境化学环境化学
背景情况:
- 制阻燃剂 (BFR) 广泛使用,导致环境污染.
- 电子垃圾场沉积物中的高度BFRs通过生物积累和食物网转移带来风险.
- 了解BFR在水生生态系统中的命运对于人类健康风险评估至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在实验室构建的水生食物网中研究五种选定的BFR的分布,生物积累和热带转移.
- 为了确定饮食摄入对水生生物BFR水平的影响.
- 评估特定BFR的热量稀释或放大潜力.
主要方法:
- 根据电子垃圾场沉积物中的高检测,选择了五个BFR (PBT,HBB,BTBPE,DBDPE,BDE209).
- 建立一个实验室构建的水生微生态系统 (食物网).
- 在5个月的暴露期内分析BFR分布,生物积累因子 (BAF) 和脂质正常化度.
主要成果:
- 食物网样本之间的显著相关性表明,饮食吸收影响BFR水平.
- 观察到BTBPE和DBDPE的热量稀释,通过热量水平和脂质正常化度之间的负相关性来表明.
- 生物积累因子 (BAF) 范围为2.49至5.17L/kg,表明持续的环境风险.
结论:
- 饮食习惯显著影响水生食物网中的BFR生物积累和热量转移.
- 虽然一些BFR表现出营养稀释,但整体生物积累需要持续的环境监测和风险评估.
- 在BFRs的整体热量放大潜力的确定中,高热量水平的生物可能起着关键作用.
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