The role of immunology in monitoring the effects of environmental pollution

: The paper gives a neat summary of experience acquired from two decades of immunological testing methods used for studying the effect of environmental contamination of the human organism. Immunological examination is part of a series of methods for a systematic follow-up of the state of health of the population. The paper underlines the complicated process leading to the resulting individual immune reactivity, which can be regarded as an outcome of multilateral interaction between the immune genetically conditioned potential and external environmental influences.