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Allyl isothiocyanate is mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Neudecker T, Henschler D
Abstract excerpt
Allyl isothiocyanate, a naturally occurring compound, component of oil of mustard and human food plants such as cabbage, cauliflower and horseradish, has up to now been regarded as nonmutagenic in bacterial mutagenicity testing systems. Recently, however, it was found to cause transitional-cell papillomas in the urinary bladder of male F344 rats. Contrary to earlier reports, in this study allyl isothiocyanate...
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