Abstract The mutagenic environmental pollutants 2-nitrofluoran-thene (2-NFA) and 3- nitrofluoranthene (3-NFA), labelled with 3 H and 14 C respectively, were incubated with Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98, its nitroreductase-deficient variant TA98NR and its 0- acetytransferase-deficient variant TA98/1, 8-DNP 6, to investigate the activity of these metabolic pathways under conditions approximating those of the Ames assay, hence their ...