Testing the Environment for Dispersed Mutagens: Use of Plant Bioconcentrators Coupled with Microbial Mutagen Assays

Barnes, William S.; Klekowski, Edward J.

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“…The use of living organisms as bioindicators of marine pollution by genetically active mutagens has been reported elsewhere (Parry et al, 1976;Barnes and Klekowski, 1978;Parry and A1-Mossawi, 1979). The method involves the extraction of living tissues in different solvents and screening such extracts for their mutagenic activity using a microbial system.…”

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The detection of mutagenic pollutants in marine organisms of Kuwait

Al-Mossawi

Salama

Salem

1984

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Several types of pollutants are currently entering the territorial waters of Kuwait from a variety of sources. Some pollutants, especially petrochemicals, are known to be potentially mutagenic and/or carcinogenic. Some of these chemical pollutants may enter the tissues of aquatic organisms and eventually the human body. The presence of such chemicals in the marine environment might create a serious health hazard. The marine environment of Kuwait was monitored for the presence of mutagenic chemicals using living organisms such as shrimp, clams and algae as bioindicators. These organisms were collected from selected sites within Kuwait territorial waters. Their tissues were extracted in ethanol and screened for genetically active chemicals by two standard bacterial assays, the Fluctuation Test and the Ames Test. Salmonella typhimurium TA98 was used as a tester strain. The data obtained from this study indicated that the shrimp, algae and clam samples were polluted with low concentration of frameshift mutagens. Due to the limited scope and nature of this study it was impossible to determine the source(s) of input or the chemical nature of these pollutants. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 22 (1984) 131-141. 0049-6979/84/0222-0131501.65. © 1984 by D. Reidel Publishing Company.132 M . A . JABAR ET AL.

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The detection of mutagenic pollutants in marine organisms of Kuwait

Al-Mossawi

Salama

Salem

1984

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…This method continues to be widely adopted in a number of academic and governmental organizations because this approach provides information regarding individual known carcinogens but can be utilized in a high-throughput system. 2730…”

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“…29 This can be done through coordination between members of the chemical analysis research team and biologists using the short-term bioassays. 28 Building up such a database of carcinogens would be an important resource both for Iraq and for the scientific community.…”

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Biological Approach for Recycling Waste Water in Iraq

Al-Mossawi

2014

Air, Soil and Water Research

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The middle and southern parts of Iraq are exposed to a series of serious drought-related problems. This is mainly linked to the absence of applied international law for water distribution in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, in addition to climate change and unawareness of the water resource problems for more than three decades. The Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit of the United Nations reported that water in the Tigris and Euphrates will decrease by up to 80% and 50%, respectively, by 2025. Therefore, water recycling would be an essential and inevitable sustainable approach under these circumstances. The biological treatment of sewage, industrial waste water, scientific laboratories effluent, and irrigation waters using compact units is described here to be involved in solving the water shortage in Iraq. The main indicators used to assess the efficiency of these units are chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), total solved salts (TSS), and total fecal coliforms (TFC). These units have been approved to treat contaminated waters with 10-fold pollutants in a fifth of the time required as compared to other classical procedures. In conclusion, using these treatment units will be useful in tackling the problem of water shortage in Iraq and could potentially be the best control method to stop the spread of infectious diseases obtained from contaminated waters.

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Testing the Environment for Dispersed Mutagens: Use of Plant Bioconcentrators Coupled with Microbial Mutagen Assays

Cited by 2 publications

References 47 publications

The detection of mutagenic pollutants in marine organisms of Kuwait

The detection of mutagenic pollutants in marine organisms of Kuwait

Biological Approach for Recycling Waste Water in Iraq

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