Copper glycinate

Acute Toxicity: inhalation

Administrative data

Endpoint:

acute toxicity: inhalation

Type of information:

(Q)SAR

Adequacy of study:

key study

Study period:

2019

Reliability:

1 (reliable without restriction)

Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:

results derived from a valid (Q)SAR model and falling into its applicability domain, with adequate and reliable documentation / justification

Justification for type of information:

The computational simulation was performed based on the read-across approach.The readacross is one of the so-called alternative test methods recommended by REACH, where the predictions are based on the experimental data available for the most similar compounds. The predictions were performed according to the Read-Across Assessment Framework (RAAF), which assumes six different risk assessment scenarios of chemical compounds.
Applied tool:
The OECD QSAR Toolbox, version 4.3
Procedure of analysis:
I. Profiling of the target substance in order to retrieve relevant information related to mechanism of action and observed or simulated metabolites
II. Category (source compounds) search based on selected criteria:
a. analogues have the same structural features as the target compound
(subcategorization profiles: Sulphate, linear [-O-SO2-O-] Sulphite, linear [-OS(=O)O-] Sulphur {v+4} or {v+6} Miscellaneous metal [Ni,
Cu, Zr, Be] Miscellaneous sulphide (=S) or oxide (=O) Zinc, sulphur attach [Zn] (Organic functional groups (US EPA))
b. analogues are structurally similar to the target compound (similarity >40%)
III. Data collection for the analogues
IV. Toxicity prediction for the target substance
V. Category consistency check in order to assess the quality of the prediction
Applied scenario:
Scenario 2
Toxicity prediction for the target substance:
This read-across is based on the fact that the organism is not exposed to common compounds but rather, as a result of similarity, to chemicals which have similar (eco)toxicological and fate properties.
The target substance is an organometallic compound containing copper (Cu) centres, glycine (Gly) ligands. The metallic centres of the substance are linked by oxygen coordination bonds of the Gly ligands.
The analogues are structurally similar to the target compound in more than 40%. Moreover, analogues and target compound have the same structural features according to profiles:
Sulphate, linear [-O-SO2-O-] ; Sulphite, linear [-OS(=O)O-]; Sulphur {v+4} or {v+6} Miscellaneous metal [Ni, Cu, Zr, Be] Miscellaneous sulphide (=S) or oxide (=O) Zinc, sulphur attach [Zn] (Organic functional groups (US EPA)). The MnSO4 was used as the source compound. The acute inhalation toxicity for analogue was measured according to the OECD 403 and this value was taken into account for the prediction.
The acute inhalation toxicity for the source compound was performed according to:
Test guideline: OECD 403
Endpoint: LC50
Test organism: rat
The read-across prediction of the acute inhalation toxicity for the target substance was performed based on the “one to one” approach.

Data source

Reference

Reference Type:

study report

Title:

Unnamed

Year:

2019

Report date:

2019

Materials and methods

Principles of method if other than guideline:

In order to meet regulatory needs, reliability of the predicted results should be assessed. In case of classic quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) modelling, this idea can be realised by analysing, whether the predicted value is located within so-called applicability domain. The applicability domain is a theoretical region, defined by the range of toxicity values and structural descriptors for the training compounds, where the predictions may be considered as realistic ones. In a specific case of read-across, the assessment is performed based on the assessment of degree of similarity between the source and target compounds (in %). Moreover, the internal consistency of the group of source compounds (called „category” in OECD Toolbox nomenclature, independently which approach: analogue approach or category approach is used). The category consistency check could be based on the parameters describing the structural similarity and/or properties as well as mechanistic similarity of the tested compounds.
For example, all members of the category (analogues as well as target substance) need to have the same functional groups and endpoint specific alerts.
In the case of read-across-based prediction of the acute inhalation toxicity of the copper (II) glycine sulphate (VI) dehydrate, the read-across hypothesis considers that source and target compounds have the same structural features related to organic functional groups (US EPA).
Based on the Dice measure, the structural similarity between analogues and the target compound was higher than 40%. Therefore, using experimental data of MnSO4 for predicting biological activity for the target compound was justified.
Besides, the category consistencies, the boundaries of the applicability domain are verified by the critical value of log KOW. In case of Cu(Gly)SO4x2H2O, the log KOW value is not available.
Thus, information that “domain is not defined” is not critical in this situation. In case of structural similarity the information that “target chemical is out of domain” is caused by
different alerts for the main core of the compound (Cu(Gly)SO4) and hydration water. Analogue search was based only on alerts for core of the target compound (Cu(Gly)SO4) which were exact the same as for source compound. Thus, information that “target chemical is out of domain” refers also to the alerts for hydration water and is not critical in this situation.

Test material

Test material information

Constituent 1

Reference substance name:

Copper glycinate

EC Number:

251-238-9

EC Name:

Copper glycinate

Cas Number:

32817-15-5

Molecular formula:

C2H5NO2.xCu

IUPAC Name:

copper glycinate

Test material form:

solid

Results and discussion

Effect levels

Dose descriptor:

LC50

Effect level:

4.45 mg/L air

Applicant's summary and conclusion

Interpretation of results:

Category 4 based on GHS criteria

Conclusions:

The acute inhalation toxicity for the target substance is predicted at level LC50 = 4.45 mg/L air.

Executive summary:

The target compound has the same structural features as source compound according to organic functional groups (US EPA). The analogues search was performed assuming at least 40% structural similarity between the source and target substances. The toxicity prediction was performed based on the experimental data included in the OECD QSAR Toolbox. Manganese (II) sulphate would have similar structural features (organic functional groups according to US EPA profiler) as well as the experimental data related to its acute inhalation toxicity was available. Therefore, the prediction is based only on the MnSO4.