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EC number: 940-683-0 | CAS number: -
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
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Toxicity to soil microorganisms
Administrative data
- Endpoint:
- toxicity to soil microorganisms
- Data waiving:
- other justification
- Justification for data waiving:
- other:
Data source
Materials and methods
Results and discussion
Applicant's summary and conclusion
- Executive summary:
The registered substance is used in cosmetic products and for fuel. The latter is not expected lead to direct exposure of the registered substance to soil (or water). The use of the registered substance in cosmetic products will lead to a discharge to waste water. Also, the manufacture and formulation life cycle stages will lead to discharges to waste water. The registered substance may reach agricultural soil due to sludge application.
As no effects are observed in the short-term tests and the long-term test at concentrations below the water solubility (algae, crustacean), then a conservatively calculated PNEC for surface water (fresh) would be: SW/AF, where AF is the assessment factor: 50.
Conservative EUSES calculations have then been carried out, where the concentration in the waste water (before any treatment)of each identified component in the registered substance has been set equal to its water solubility multiplied with the mole fraction of the component in the registered substance. This is done both at the regional and at the local scale. Then the concentration in both agricultural soil and agricultural soil pore water has been calculated. The latter was then compared with the PNEC for fresh water (equilibrium partition method).
The below table shows the results. It is seen that the calculated concentration in soil is very low with a total concentration of approximately 0.02 mg/kg dm. The overall RCR for soil pore water is very conservatively calculated at 0.45, i.e. well below 1.
Substance
CAS-RN
logKOW
SW(mg/L)
MW(g/mole)
Weight percent-tage
Mole fraction
PEC(soil) (mg/kg dm)
PEC(Soil pore water)
RCR(soil pore water)
9-Octadecenoic acid (Z)-, ethyl ester
111-62-6
8.5
0.0008
310.52
45.1
0.50
9.0E-03
3.6E-06
2.3E-01
Octadecanoic acid, ethyl ester
111-61-5
8.72
0.0004
312.54
23.1
0.26
2.4E-03
7.5E-07
9.4E-02
9,12-Octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z)-, ethyl ester
544-35-4
8.29
0.0009
308.51
1.8
0.02
3.9E-04
2.0E-07
1.1E-02
Ethyl (Z)-docos-13-enoate
37910-77-3
10.47
0.000006
366.63
3.2
0.03
6.5E-06
3.2E-10
2.7E-03
Hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester
628-97-7
7.74
0.004
284.49
7.2
0.09
6.9E-03
6.4E-06
8.0E-02
Tetradecanoic acid, ethyl ester
124-06-1
6.76
0.04
256.42
0.1
0.001
2.0E-04
4.6E-07
5.7E-04
9-Octadecenoic acid (Z)-, methyl ester
112-62-9
7.45
0.006
296.5
4.1
0.05
1.3E-03
1.4E-06
1.2E-02
Octadecanoic acid, methyl ester
112-61-8
8.35
0.001
298.51
1.9
0.02
4.8E-04
2.3E-07
1.1E-02
9,12-Octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z)-, methyl ester
112-63-0
6.82
0.02
294.48
0.4
0.005
3.6E-04
7.6E-07
1.9E-03
Hexadecanoic acid, methyl ester
112-39-0
7.38
0.01
270.46
0.3
0.004
1.7E-04
2.0E-07
9.9E-04
C16-C18 free acids
7.17
0.04
256.43
0.8
0.01
1.8E-03
2.7E-06
3.3E-03
C18 propyl esters
9.2
0.0001
326
0.9
0.01
2.3E-05
4.4E-09
2.2E-03
Sum
1.00
2.3E-02
0.45
As the RCR based on very conservative calculations for soil pore water is well below 1, then the registered substance is not expected to exhibit a risk the soil organism. Therefore, studies on toxicity to soil organisms are waived.
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