Department of Occupational Health and Radiation Protection, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051, China.
School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Molecules. 2023 Aug 27;28(17):6268. doi: 10.3390/molecules28176268.
Ingestion of polonium-210 from environmental media and food can cause serious health hazards (e.g., gastrointestinal symptoms, tumours, etc.) and has been a public health concern worldwide since the 2006 poisoning of Agent Litvinenko Po in Russia. With the development of uranium mining and applications of nuclear technology in recent decades, the radioactive hazards posed by Po to living organisms and the environment have become increasingly prominent. In order to strengthen the monitoring of environmental Po and protect both the environment and human health, a series of explorations on the methods of Po determination have been ongoing by researchers across the globe. However, previous reviews have focused on individual sample types and have not provided a comprehensive account of environmental, food, and biological samples that are closely related to human health. In this work, the sources, health hazards, chemical purification, and detection methods of trace Po in different sample types are systematically reviewed. In particular, the advantages and disadvantages of various pretreatment methods are compared, and relevant domestic and international standards are integrated, which puts forward a new direction for the subsequent establishment of rapid, simple, and efficient measurement methods.
摄入来自环境介质和食物中的钋-210 可能会造成严重的健康危害（例如，胃肠道症状、肿瘤等），自 2006 年俄罗斯特工利特维年科中毒事件以来，这一直是全世界关注的公共卫生问题。近几十年来，随着铀矿开采和核技术应用的发展，钋对生物体和环境造成的放射性危害日益突出。为了加强环境钋的监测，保护环境和人类健康，全球研究人员一直在探索钋的测定方法。然而，之前的综述主要集中在个别样品类型上，没有全面描述与人类健康密切相关的环境、食品和生物样品。在这项工作中，系统地综述了不同样品类型中痕量钋的来源、健康危害、化学净化和检测方法。特别是，比较了各种预处理方法的优缺点，并整合了相关的国内外标准，为后续建立快速、简单、高效的测量方法提出了新的方向。
