title: The use of cytogenetic monitoring in the workplace: a position paper of the American Industrial Health Council.
abstract: Although tests to determine cytogenetic effects can be used to identify workers who have been exposed to certain agents, uncertainties remain. Tests to determine cytogenetic effects have not gained wide acceptance for routine monitoring in the workplace because of questions concerning their general applicability to detect exposure to a wide variety of agents and because of the lack of data showing a correlation between cytogenetic effects as detected in humans and adverse health effects. Unless those issues are resolved, the measurement of cytogenetic effects for workplace monitoring purposes should be regarded as experimental and such measurement is not likely to become a routine workplace exposure monitoring technique.
mesh_terms: D000014:Abnormalities, Drug-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D006801:Humans; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009153:Mutagens; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects; D012306:Risk; D012854:Sister Chromatid Exchange / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D009153:Mutagens