Ames testing environmental samples

It was the consensus of the panel participants that the methods summarized here represent the best available technology to prepare environmental samples for the Ames assay. These methods were chosen, after group discussion, on the basis of the collective laboratory experience of the participants and a thorough review of the literature. However, these are interim protocols subject to laboratory validation. This validation effort has been initiated, and workers in the field of environmental mutagenesis are urged to test these interim protocols in their own laboratories. 

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