Progress in genetic toxicology [antikvár]

PREFACE The Honorary President of our Conference, Charlotte Auerbach, first demonstra-ted over 30 years ago the mutagenic potential of chemical agents. It is only with-in the last ten years, however, that geneticists have become aware that chemicals exist among medici nes, pesticides, in food and in our working environment which could cause deleterious inherited changes without showing any immediate toxic or harmful effects. It has also become clear that chemicals which cause mutations are largely the same as those which cause cancer in experimentál animals and, where evidence exists, in man. The growing awareness of these facts led to the founding in 1969 of the American Environmental Mutagen Society whose purpose is to encourage interest in and study of mutagens in the human environment, particularly as these may be of concern to public health". This was followed by the establishment of European, Japanese and Indian Societies with similar aims, each of which holds its own annual conference. This, the Second International Conference of Environmental Mutagens provided an opportunity for members of these Societies and many other scientists, over 500 in all, to meet together to review the tremendous progress that has been made in this field even since the First International Conference in California in 1973» and to look ahead to further developments. This book contains the texts of the Plenary and Symposium lectures given by internat ional 1 y-known experts and a number of selected contributed papers in areas of investigation designated Priority Topics by the Programme Committee and chosen to reflect the scope and main interests of the Conference. D. Scott B.A. Bridges F.H. Sobels