NDLI: Genotoxicity evaluation of hospital wastewaters.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Gupta, Preeti Mathur, N. Bhatnagar, P. Nagar, P. Srivastava, S.
Spatial Coverage	India
Description	Country affiliation: India Author Affiliation: Gupta P ( Environmental Toxicology Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India. p_gupta2000@hotmail.com)
Abstract	In hospitals a large variety of substances are in use for medical purposes such as diagnostics and research. After application, diagnostic agents, disinfectants and excreted non-metabolized pharmaceuticals by patients reach the wastewater. Indeed, some of the substances found in wastewaters are genotoxic and are suspected to be a possible cause of the cancers observed in the last decades. Genotoxicity tests are an excellent means to study the toxicity and the risk associated with these releases. This paper points out the areas of concern for hospital wastewater disposal and reports the findings of genotoxicity tests for hospital effluents from 3 major hospitals in Delhi, namely All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Apollo and Escorts. Mutagenicity of hospital wastewaters from effluent treatment plants (before and after treatment) was studied. The results of this study show that the genotoxicity of hospital wastewaters is highly reduced after the treatment process. This study calls for establishment of advanced and effective effluent treatment plants in the hospitals, which are merely dumping the wastewaters in the municipal sewerage system. The results of this study call for further detailed study in this area.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	01476513
Issue Number	7
Volume Number	72
e-ISSN	10902414
Journal	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2009-10-01
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Environmental Sciences Hazardous Waste Hospitals Mutagens Toxicity Water Pollutants, Chemical Dose-response Relationship, Drug Environmental Monitoring Standards India Mutagenicity Tests Salmonella Typhimurium Drug Effects Genetics Journal Article
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Pollution Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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