Gamma Radiation Treatment for Reducing
Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity
in Industrial Wastewater

Munawar Iqbal

doi:10.15244/pjoes/59233

6/2015 vol. 24

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Gamma Radiation Treatment for Reducing Cytotoxicity and Mutagenicity in Industrial Wastewater

Munawar Iqbal¹, Mazhar Abbas², Muhammad Arshad², Tariq Hussain³, Aman Ullah Khan⁴, Nasir Masood⁵, Muhammad Asif Tahir⁶, Syed Makhdoom Hussain⁷, Tanveer Hussain Bokhari⁸, Rasheed Ahmad Khera⁶

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¹National Centre of Excellence in Physical Chemistry, University of Peshawar, Peshawar-25120, Pakistan
²Department of Basic Sciences, Biochemistry Section, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences,
Jhang Campus-35200, Pakistan
³Department of Basic Sciences, Pharmacology Section, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences,
Jhang Campus-35200, Pakistan
⁴Department of Pathobiology/Microbiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang Campus-35200, Pakistan
⁵Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari-61100, Pakistan
⁶Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-38040, Pakistan
⁷Department of Zoology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
⁸Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad-38000, Pakistan

Submission date: 2015-05-26

Final revision date: 2015-08-26

Acceptance date: 2015-08-27

Publication date: 2015-11-27

Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2015;24(6):2745–2750

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/59233

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Our study evaluates the effect of gamma radiation treatment on detoxification of textile effluents. The effluents were tested for cytotoxicity and mutagenicity using Allium cepa, heamolytic, brine shrimp, and Ames tests before and after gamma radiation treatment. The collected wastewater samples were irradiated to the absorbed doses of 5kGy, 10kGy, and 15kGy, and subjected to toxicity tests. The gamma radiation showed promising efficiency for detoxification of pollutants in wastewater. The microbial load was reduced to zero, and increases in root length (RL) and root count (RC) were 31.10% and 38.34%, respectively, at 5 kGy. The reduction in cytotoxicity was recorded to be 39.56%, 49.65%, and 79.63% in the case of human and sheep red blood cells (RBC) and brine shrimp, respectively. Before treatment, the samples were mildly mutagenic and after treatment mutagenicity was not detected. Results showed that gamma radiation has promising efficiency for the degradation of toxic agents present in effluents.

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