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Release of airborne mutagens associated with inhalable particles may occur in various industrial, governmental, and public activities. These activities include transportation, manufacturing, mining, refining, processing of materials, agricultural procedures, electric power generation, and other processes involving combustion and vaporization. People may be exposed to mutagenic aerosols in occupational exposure to process or fugitive emissions, or during use of aerosolizable or volatile mutagenic materials. The general public may be exposed to environmental concentrations (released airborne materials) or in the course of using various product materials or other personal activities.
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Raabe, O.G. (1982). Problems Associated with Assessing the Mutagenicity of Inhalable Particulate Matter. In: Tice, R.R., Costa, D.L., Schaich, K.M. (eds) Genotoxic Effects of Airborne Agents. Environmental Science Research, vol 25. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3455-2_17
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