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The Use of Short-Term Bioassays to Monitor the Environmental Impact of Land Treatment of Hazardous Wastes
The feasibility of using a battery of short-term bioassays for the detection of mutagens and potential carcinogens released into the environment as a...
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Hazardous Waste Landfill Research
Landfill practice within NATO countries has been reviewed in studies promoted by The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society.
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The Detection of Potential Genetic Hazards in Complex Environmental Mixtures Using Plant Cytogenetics and Microbial Mutagenesis Assays
The recent realization that industrial effluents and wastes could pose health hazards to future generations has led to considerable research on the...
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Short-Term Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis Bioassays of Mobile-Source Emissions
The combustion emissions from mobile sources, including both gases and particles, are very complex and may have thousands of separate components....
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Atmospheric and Watershed Inputs of Mercury to Cranberry Lake, St. Lawrence County, New York
Cranberry Lake is a large (28.2 km2) reservoir located in the northwestern Adirondack Mountains in New York State. The area surrounding the lake is...
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Biological Waste Treatment at Elevated Temperatures and Salinities
The subject of waste treatment at elevated temperatures and salinities is, perhaps, best introduced by briefly reviewing the history, technology, and...
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Enzyme Technology: Potential Benefits of Biosaline Organisms
A biosaline environment exists in many parts of the world where enzyme technology has not yet begun to flourish. Accordingly, there is little...
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The use of Microbial Assay Systems in the Detection of Environmental Mutagens in Complex Mixtures
Microbial mutagenicity procedures are widely used as prescreens for the detection of environmental agents (10,11) endowed with genetic activity....
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The Role of Drosophila in Chemical Mutagenesis Testing
An important question facing our society is the impact of numerous chemical insults on the health of man and his environment. Faced with a staggering...
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Quantitative Mammalian Cell Genetic Toxicology: Study of the Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity of Seventy Individual Environmental Agents Related to Energy Technologies and Three Subfractions of a Crude Synthetic Oil in the CHO/HGPRT System
As science and technology advance, an extraordinary-quantity of natural and synthetic chemicals is introduced continuously into our environment....
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Short-Term Bioassay of Complex Organic Mixtures: Part II, Mutagenicity Testing
The feasibility of using short-term mutagenicity assays to predict the potential biohazard of various crude and complex test materials has been...
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Environmental Testing
Environmental toxicology is a term that conveys different images to different people. In its broadest sense environmental toxicology encompasses all...
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Chemical and Microbiological Studies of Mutagenic Pollutants in Real and Simulated Atmospheres
In the early 1940’s the organic extracts of ambient particulate matter (POM) collected from urban air in the United States were found to be...
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Resource Recovery from Municipal Wastes—A Review and Analysis of Existing and Emerging Technology
The vast and growing amounts of solid wastes generated daily in our cities, and the present problems and costs of proper disposal of these wastes,...
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The Moon
The conference was called to order at 9:20 a.m. by Dr. Shelesnyak.