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EC number: 226-641-8 | CAS number: 5444-75-7
- 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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Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
No adverse effects up to the limit of water solubility (0.4 mg/L measured in aqua dest; 0.66 mg/L in fish test medium) for Oncorhynchus mykiss (OECD 203).
No adverse effects up to the limit of water solubility (0.4 mg/L measured in aqua dest; 0.125 mg/L in M4 test medium) for Daphnia magna (OECD 202).
No adverse effects up to the limit of water solubility (0.4 mg/L measured in aqua dest; 0.035 mg/L in algae test medium) for Selenastrum capricornutum (OECD 201).
Activated sludge was not inhibited based on a short term respiration test at 100 mg/L (nominal). Therefore disturbances in the biodegradation process of a sewage treatment plant is not anticipated for 2-ethylhexyl benzoate.
In a test according to OECD 211 Daphnia magna were exposed (10 replicates of a single daphnid per group) to a solution of the substance at a nominal concentration of 100% v/v saturated solution (actual 24-h TWA 0.014 mg/L) for a period of 21 days. The test solutions were renewed daily throughout the test. No effects on moratlity/immobility, daphnia length and reproduction were seen at a 100% saturated concentration. Therefore it can be concluded that the NOEC is 0.014 mg/L.
Additional information
Acute toxicity of 2 -ethylhexyl benzoate (CAS No. 5444 -75 -7) to aquatic organisms was investigated on three trophic levels (algae, invertebrates and fish). In all available short-term toxicity tests, no adverse effects occurred in the range of the water solubility of the substance (0.4 mg/L measured in aqua dest, 0.035 - 0.66 mg/L in the aquatic toxicity test media).
In a test according to OECD 211 no effects on mortality/immobility, daphnia length and reproduction were seen at a 100% saturated concentration (measured TWA 0.014 mg/L). Therefore it can be concluded that the NOEC is 0.014 mg/L.
Activated sludge was not inhibited based on a short term respiration test at 100 mg/L (nominal). Therefore disturbances in the biodegradation process of a sewage treatment plant is not anticipated for 2-ethylhexyl benzoate.
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