Lack of mutagenicity of extracts and filtrates from ''hog-fuel'' fly ash

Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01669613· OSTI ID:5900510

Scribner, J D; Fisk, S R

There has been concern that mutagenic material might be present in the fly ash released from burning bark and wood-chips (''hog-fuel'') in the boilers of various mills of a large forest products corporation. Using five different strains of histidine-requiring auxotrophs of Salmonella typhimurium, we have found that none of the samples from six different plants, in various parts of the United States, contains serum-extractable mutagens, and that only one of these contains mutagens extractable with hot benzene. Another sample, taken from a different boiler run at the same plant which produced the mutagenic sample, was without mutagenic activity. (JMT)

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, Seattle, WA
• OSTI ID: 5900510
• Journal Information: Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States), Journal Name: Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States) Vol. 29:5; ISSN BECTA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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