Publisher's Synopsis
Owing to the long duration and high costs of carcinogenicity testing, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, together with the US National Cancer Institute, initiated in 1973 an international survey of institutes throughout the world involved in the long-term testing of chemicals or other agents for carcinogenicity in experimental animals.;Questionnaires are sent at two year intervals to all participating and newly identified institutes and the data received are collated, adding synonyms, chemical abstracts services registry numbers, chemical abstracts names and use categories and published as the "Directory of Agents being tested for Carcinogenicity", which is made available to participating laboratories and other interested scientists. The directories may also be purchased through the WHO Distribution and Sales service.;Each directory lists agents under investigation, use categories, animal species, strain and number of animals per treated and control groups, stage of the experiment, principal investigators and references to published reports of completed studies. Survey results are arranged alphabetically by country and within each country by city, and within each city by institute. This directory gives data received from 82 institutes in 22 countries on 796 chemicals. Some 212 published reports on 185 chemicals or agents are also listed. The directory also features a cross index of names (chemical names and synonym index) covering studies reported in Directory No. 15 as well as those reported in the six previous directories, which have been published, unpublished or discontinued.
