Genotoxicity Testing of Various Food Flavours in the Diploid Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Human population is widely exposed to an increasing number of natural and manmade environmental chemicals which are believed to be responsible for most human cancers. The establishment of a strong correlation between the carcinogenic and mutagenic potential of most chemicals opened by the possibility of large scale screening of chemicals for mutagenicity in short-term tests.