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Environmental fate & pathways

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

The test item is considered as being readily biodegradable.

Testing of hydrolysis and adsorption/desorption behaviour was not conducted because the test item is readily biodegradable and has a LogKow <3.

Additional information

Biodegradability


The biodegradability of the analogue substance Sophorolipids was investigated in a guideline study.


OECD guideline 301F


The biodegradation of the test substance was investigated over a 28 day period in a manometric Respirometry Test according to OECD Guideline 301 F (1992). The test medium was inoculated with microorganisms from a digester of a sewage treatment plant mainly fed with municipal wastewater.


The rate of degradation was monitored by measuring the quantity of oxygen required to maintain a constant gas volume in the respirometer flasks over 28 days.


Sodium benzoate was used as a degradable reference substance at a concentration of 100 mg/L, along with a toxicity control at 100 mg/L test substance and 100 mg/L sodium benzoate. The biodegradation of the test substance was found to be at mean 69 % with a standard deviation of 0.8 % for a concentration of 100 mg test substance/L and at mean 85 % with a standard deviation of 5.4 % for a concentration of 60 mg test item/L. For a concentration of 100 mg test substance/L biodegradation within the 10-day-window was found to be 61 %.


For a concentration of 60 mg test substance/L biodegradation within the 10-day-window was found to be 75 %.


The degradation of of the reference substance sodium benzoate had reached 83 % within the first 14 days.


According to the guideline, the test item is considered as beingreadily biodegradableunder the test conditions.


 


Hydrolysis


Testing is not required. According to the REACH Regulation, Annex VIII, column 2 the study does not need to be conducted if the substance is readily biodegradable. Handbook data describe that the test substance hydrolyses under to both acid and alkaline conditions. Transformation products are sophorose and deacetyled free acids.


 


Adsorption / desorption


Koc was calculated for the read-across substance with EUSES 2.1.2 using the following parameters:


Molecular weight: 623 g/mol (molecular weight of main constituent based on oleic acid as major fatty acid moiety for the acidic form with the


representative molecular formula of C 30 H 54 O 13)


Melting point: 150 °C


Vapour pressure: minimum (1E-06)


Water solubility: 0.2 g/L (according to critical micelle concentration (CMC))


LogKow: 2.4, worst case value calculated from measurement of CMC and solubility in octanol


Chemical class: default QSAR