The application of short-termm utagenicity tests for
drinking-water studies can be helpful for the monitoring
of mutagenic by-products that may be formed during
the drinking-water treatments. These tests have been
used for a long time to study the mutagenic/carcinogenic
risks for humans exposed to different chemical compounds.
Their application has, for some time, now been
extended to the study of mutagenic substances in
complex environmental matrices, such as water, air,
soils and foods. Drinking water has been intensively
tested for mutagenicity [4–14].