title: International Commission for Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens. ICPEMC publication No. 16. Testing for mutagens and carcinogens; the role of short-term genotoxicity assays.
abstract: The problems currently besetting approaches to the detection of chemicals likely to pose a mutagenic or carcinogenic hazard to humans are analysed. Some solutions to these problems are offered.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002273:Carcinogens; D004249:DNA Damage; D006801:Humans; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests / Q000379:methods*; D009153:Mutagens; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002273:Carcinogens; D009153:Mutagens