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MUTAGENICITY OF COMBUSTION EMISSIONS FROM A BIOMEDICAL WASTER INCINERATOR
Citation:
Driver, J., H. Rogers, AND L. Claxton. MUTAGENICITY OF COMBUSTION EMISSIONS FROM A BIOMEDICAL WASTER INCINERATOR. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/D-89/093 (NTIS PB89222798), 1989.
Description:
The Ames Salmonella typhimurium (TA98) assay was used to determine the mutagenicity of stack fly ash from a medical/pathological waste incinerator. tack fly ash also collected from a boiler plant adjacent to the incinerator and ambient air particles (upwind and downwind of the incinerator and boiler facilities) were collected and bioassayed. ownwind particulate mutagenicity (revertants per cubic meter of air) was significantly greater than upwind particulate mutagenicity. utagenic emission was significantly greater than upwind particulate mutagenicity. utagenic emission rate estimates (revertants per kilogram waste feed) for the incinerator and boiler were less than estimates ash and downwind ambient air particulate samples collected during incinerator auxiliary burner failure.