[Local immunity and methods for its assessment upon exposure to ambient air-polluting biologicals].

The investigators studied the impact of biological air contamination by the dusts resulting from protein feedstuff manufacture and grain on local immunity of the mucosae in children and adults living in the areas that were differently distant from industrial objects, the sources of contamination, as well as in workers of the shops contaminated by dust containing various amounts of protein. The studies showed that the workers of a biochemical plant exhibited a considerable change in the majority of immunological parameters (lysozyme activity, heterophile antibody titers, salivary and skin bactericidity, salivary total and R-protein, and immunoglobulins A, M, G, and E). There was a significant decrease in salivary IgA activity.

[Problem in compensation for socioecological damage].

The paper considers theoretical approaches to and rules of thumb for compensation for socioenvironmental damage at the municipal level. There is evidence for the necessity of designing a uniform present-day package of methods to calculate the damage with a uniform complex of evaluation of all factors, both quantitative and non-quantitative ones. The authors propose to finish off early developed procedures to specify and quantify a health-exposure relationship, and to have a more adequate market economic interpretation of the above phenomena.