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EC number: 216-074-4 | CAS number: 1490-04-6
- 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
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- 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
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- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
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- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
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- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
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- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
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- Biodegradation
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- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
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- 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
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- 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
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Effects on fertility
Description of key information
no data
Effect on fertility: via oral route
- Dose descriptor:
- NOAEL
- 375 mg/kg bw/day
Additional information
Groups of 50 rats of each sex were administrated dl-menthol at one of the following doses, either 3750 or 7500 ppm (= ca. 188 or 375 mg/kg bw/d) for 103 weeks. At the end all animals were killed and necropsied; gross and microscopic examination of: all major organs, including reproductive organs; in male rats prostate,testes, epididymis, scrotum; in female rats mammary gland, vagina, uterus, uterus/endometrium, ovary/panovarian, ovary.
Histopathological examinations of the reproduction organs of rats showed no changes in the repeated dose toxicity studies with D/L-menthol and also in carcinogenicity studies with D/Lmenthol. Hence there is no indication of a potential of D/L-menthol to interfere adversely with reproduction.
In the analogue study in mice also no indication of a potential of D/L-menthol to interfere adversely with reproduction was found.
Short description of key information:
A carcinogenicity study with histopathologic examiniation of male and female reproduction organs in rats and mice was performed
Effects on developmental toxicity
Description of key information
The administration of up to 218 mg/kg (body weight) of the test material to pregnant rats for 10 consccutive days had no clearly descernible effect on nidation or on maternal or fetal survival. The number of abnormalities seen in either soft or skeletal tissues of the test groups did not differ from the number occurring spontaneously in the sham-treated controls.
The administration of up to 405 mg/kg (body weight) of the test material to pregnant hamsters for 5 consecutive days had no clearly
discernible effect on nidation or on maternal or fetal surviva1. The number of abnormalities seen in either soft or skeletal tissues of the test groupn did not differ from the number occurring spontaneously in the sham-treated controls.
The administration of up to 185 mg/kg (body weight) of the test material to pregnant mice for 10 consecutive days had no clearly discernible effect on nidation or on maternal or fetal survival. The number of abnormalities seen in either soft or skeletal tissues of the test groups did not differ from the number occurring spontaneously in the sham-treated controls.
The administration of up to 425 mg/kg (body weight) of the test material to pregnant rabbits for 13 consecutive days had no clearly
discernible effect on nidation or on maternal or fetal survival. The number of abnorrnalities seen in either soft or skeletal tissues of the test groups did not differ from the number occurring spontaneously in the sham-treated controls.
Effect on developmental toxicity: via oral route
- Dose descriptor:
- NOAEL
- 218 mg/kg bw/day
Additional information
development toxicity/teratogenicity studies on rats, rabbits, mice and hamsters revealed no evidence of teratogenic effects of menthol.
Toxicity to reproduction: other studies
Additional information
no data
Justification for classification or non-classification
From the available data a classification is not justified
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