简介：新西兰新《职业安全健康法》（TheHealthandSafeyatWorkAct）已于4月4日正式生效。此法是新西兰改革蓝图的一部分，旨在到2020年将新西兰严重职业伤亡至少降低25％。该法规定，雇主对员工和可能受到作业影响人员的安全与健康负有主要责任。雇主的主要责任包括：提供无安全健康隐患的工作场所，保持工作场所安全；建立、维持工作安全体系。

简介：Themechanismofhealtheffectscausedbyorganohalogenpollutants,e.g.,toxinsfromelectronicwaste(e-waste),ispoorlyunderstood.WesupposedthatmicroRNAs(miRNAs),animportantpost-transcriptionalregulator,couldplayaroleinthisprocess.Inthisstudy,fastingperipheralbloodsampleswerecollectedfromresidentslivingatane-wastesiteinnorthernChinaandanearbyreferencepopulation.Concentrationsofe-wasterelatedorganohalogenpollutantsinplasmafromtheexposuregroupwerehigherthanthecorrespondingmeasurementinthereferencegroup.Correspondingly,sixtymiRNAsinplasmashowed>2-foldchangebetweenthetwogroupsinmicroarrayanalysis.Amongthem,miR-125a-5pwasconfirmedtobeupregulatedbyqRT-PCRanditsvalidatedtargetswereenrichedinresponsestoxenobioticsandcancerrelatedpathways.Furthermore,significantpositivecorrelationswerefoundbetweenlevelsofmiR-125a-5pinplasmaandreactiveoxygenspecies(ROS)inpolymorphonuclearneutrophilleukocytes(P<0.05).Theseevidencessuggestedoxidativestressmightbeanintermediatebetweene-wasterelatedPOPsexposureandalterationofplasmamiRNA.