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Section 1: Short-Term Bioassay Systems—An Overview.- The Use of Microbial Assay Systems in the Detection of Environmental Mutagens in Complex Mixtures.- Mutagenesis of Mammalian Cells by Chemical Carcinogens After Metabolic Activation.- Oncogenic Transformation of Mammalian Cells by Chemicals and Viral-Chemical Interactions.- Higher Plant Systems as Monitors of Environmental Mutagens.- The Role of Drosophila in Chemical Mutagenesis Testing.- The Cellular Toxicity of Complex Environmental Mixtures.- Section 2: Collection and Chemical Analysis of Environmental Samples.- Atmospheric Genotoxicants—What Numbers Do We Collect?.- State-of-the-Art Analytical Techniques for Ambient Vapor Phase Organics and Volatile Organics in Aqueous Samples from Energy-Related Activities.- Strategy for Collection of Drinking Water Concentrates.- Section 3: Current Research.- Short-term Bioassay of Complex Organic Mixtures: Part I, Chemistry.- Short-term Bioassay of Complex Organic Mixtures: Part II, Mutagenicity Testing.- Quantitative Mammalian Cell Genetic Toxicology: Study of the Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity of Seventy Individual Environmental Agents Related to Energy Technologies and Three Subfractions of a Crude Synthetic Oil in the CHO/HGPRT System.- Environmental Testing.- Integrating Microbiological and Chemical Testing into the Screening of Air Samples for Potential Mutagenicity.- Chemical and Microbiological Studies of Mutagenic Pollutants in Real and Simulated Atmospheres.- Application of Bioassay to the Characterization of Diesel Particle Emissions.- Measurement of Biological Activity of Ambient Air Mixtures Using a Mobile Laboratory for In Situ Exposures: Preliminary Results from the Tradescantia Plant Test System.- Physical and Biological Studies of Coal Fly Ash.-Mutagenicity of Shale Oil Components.- Mutagenic Analysis of Drinking Water.- In Vitro Activation of Cigarette Smoke Condensate Materials to Their Mutagenic Forms.- Mutagenic, Carcinogenic, and Toxic Effects of Residual Organics in Drinking Water.- Mutagenic Analysis of Complex Samples of Aqueous Effluents, Air Particulates, and Foods.