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  Genotoxicity Evaluation of Hospital Waste Waters: A Study Monitored by E.coli WP2 Assay

  By Preeti Gupta, P. Mathur, P. Bhatnagar

  Abstract: The major sources of health-care waste are hospitals. A variety of substances such as pharmaceuticals, radionuclide and solvents are used in hospitals for medical diagnostics, disinfection and research work. After application, some of these substances and excreted non-metabolized pharmaceuticals by the patients enter into the hospital effluents. Indeed, some of these substances found in wastewaters are genotoxic and are suspected to be a possible cause of the cancers observed in …

  Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Toxicology · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2013 · pp. 6–11 Read article →