[The status and developmental outlook of the priority scientific trend in environmental protection].

Scientific researches carried out in the area of environmental sanitation are closely related to the principal lines of activity in industry and farming of Ukraine. The main task of research work is establishing principles, criteria and methods of comprehensive assessment of injury to health secondary to environmental contamination. With the purpose of identification of the real physical and chemical environmental factors load that human body experiences, an inventory has been made at the Ukrainian Scientific Research Centre for Hygiene of carcinogen sources, with the concept having been worked out of creation of the integrated system for control of safe NPS operation, and a concept proposed of genetic monitoring, and of state genetic load surveillance service in different regions of Ukraine, taking account of the degree of environmental pollution.