Mutagenicity Assessment of Textile Dyes by Using Ames Test

Project Report from the year 2017 in the subject Biology - Micro- and Molecular Biology, grade: master, Lovely Professional University, Punjab (lovely professional university), course: master, language: English, abstract: Textile dyes were used in colouring the clothes.Textile wastewater includes various types of dyesand chemicals that make the environmental challenge for textile industry. Main pollutants in textile wastewater came from dyes. Textile industry effluent contains these toxic dyes. These toxic compounds enter into the surface water contaminate the surface water and it is used for irrigation and drinking purposes. Also, farmers use water from the rivers for agricultural purposes and the nearby areas peoples of the town, use both the surface and underground water as potable water, it is very harmful and unsafe to discharge this effluent into water body. Here, present work is focused on the characterization of various disperse and vat dyes used by textile industries of Ludhiana for mutagenicity assessment.