[Difference of Species Sensitivities for Aquatic Life Criteria in China and the USA].

Recently, China has commenced water quality criteria (WQC) research using the species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method. However, it is difficult to obtain sufficient toxicity data on native species for thousands of contaminants. In this study, the feasibility of deriving aquatic life criteria using toxicity data from non-native species was analyzed (taking the USA as an example). Firstly, 10 pollutants [As(Ⅲ), Cr(Ⅵ), Hg, Cu, Pb, Zn, nitrobenzene, parathion, chlorpyrifos, tributyltin] with plenty of toxicity data (at least 3 Phyla and 8 Families) both in China and the USA were selected based on the recommended aquatic life criteria of 58 pollutants by the US EPA. Secondly, the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test and comparison method of important points of HC5 and HC50 (hazardous concentrations for 5% of the species and 50% of the species) were used to determine the difference of species sensitivity between China and the USA. The result of two-sample K-S test showed that the difference of species sensitivity to Cu, chlorpyrifos and tributyltin between the two countries was significant (P<0.05). Additionally, there were significant differences for HC5 values [Cr(Ⅵ), chlorpyrifos] between the two countries, as well as the HC50 (chlorpyrifos). As a result, there were significant differences for the species sensitivity to some pollutants [Cr(Ⅵ), chlorpyrifos, etc.] between China and the USA. Therefore, in this situation, "over-protection" or "non-protection" may happen when using the criteria values or the toxicity data of American species directly to protect the Chinese native species.

[Evaluation of the acute toxicity of pharmaceutical wastewater to luminescent bacteria].

Acute toxicity of wastewater from 5 nodes of technological process in the pharmaceutical factory sewage treatment station was studied by luminescent bacteria tests. The EC50, TUa and LID of the wastewater in underground regulating tanks was 3.44%, 29 and 625, respectively, indicating the water was extremely/highly toxic; for the wastewater in surface regulating tanks, the EC50, TUa and LID was 2.46%, 41 and 244, respectively, also extremely/highly toxic; for the wastewater in middle sediment tanks, the EC50 > 100% and LID was 10, which was moderately toxic; for the wastewater in secondary sediment tanks and the final effluents, the EC50 was above 100% and LID was 1, with no observed toxicity. The results indicated that the existing treatment process effectively reduced the acute toxicity of the pharmaceutical wastewater to luminescent bacteria, the effluents showed no observed toxicity to luminescent bacteria, which was lower than the relative effluent limits of pharmaceutical wastewater. The wastewater in lower concentration did not inhibit the luminosity, but enhanced the luminosity.

Progress of environmental management and risk assessment of industrial chemicals in China.

With China's rapid economic growth, chemical-related environmental issues have become increasingly prominent, and the environmental management of chemicals has garnered increased attention from the government. This review focuses on the current situation and the application of risk assessment in China's environmental management of industrial chemicals. The related challenges and research needs of the country are also discussed. The Chinese government promulgated regulations for the import and export of toxic chemicals in 1994. Regulations for new chemical substances came into force in 2003, and were revised in 2010 based on the concept of risk management. In order to support the implementation of new regulations, Guidance for Risk Assessment of Chemicals is under development in an attempt to provide the concepts and techniques of risk assessment. With increasing concern and financial support from Chinese government, China is embarking on the fast track of research and development in environmental management of industrial chemicals.

[Conjugation and immunogenic evaluation of complete immunogen for the small molecular environmental pollutants 2,4-D].

Conjugation of complete immunogen for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) was studied. 2,4-D was cross-linked to bovine serum albumin (BSA, carrier) by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl- aminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC). The conjugation reaction was found to be more effective at 4 degrees C and incubated for 18 hour. 2,4-D was dissolved in 0.05 mol/L phosphate buffer between 10.0 - 12.0 mg/mL concentration, pH was adjusted to be 5.4 - 6.1. When the weight of added EDC was below 12 mg, the more EDC was added the higher substitution degree complete immunogen was synthesized. Complete immunogen of various substitution degree (2,4-D: protein) were applied to immunize balb/c mice. The conjugates of 2,4-D and poly-L-lysine was applied as coating antigen. It was experimentally found that complete immunogen of substitution degree 12 and 18 are more immunogenic than that of substitution degree 6 and 25. None-specific adsorption between antiserum that was produced by complete immunogen of substitution degree 18 and coating antigen was very weak, and the antiserum contained more 2,4-D specific antibody. It could be used as the immunogen for the preparation monoclonal antibody.