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EC number: 270-064-4 | CAS number: 68409-80-3
- 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
Ecotoxicological Summary
Administrative data
Hazard for aquatic organisms
Freshwater
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- PNEC aqua (freshwater)
- PNEC value:
- 0.505 mg/L
- Assessment factor:
- 10
- Extrapolation method:
- assessment factor
Marine water
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- PNEC aqua (marine water)
- PNEC value:
- 0.051 mg/L
- Assessment factor:
- 100
- Extrapolation method:
- assessment factor
STP
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Sediment (freshwater)
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Sediment (marine water)
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Hazard for air
Air
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Hazard for terrestrial organisms
Soil
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Hazard for predators
Secondary poisoning
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- PNEC oral
- PNEC value:
- 0.018 g/kg food
- Assessment factor:
- 90
Additional information
The fate and toxicity of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts in the environment is most accurately evaluated by separately assessing the fate of its moieties calcium and fatty acids, C6-19-branched fatty acids, represented by read-across to the structural analogue neodecanoic acid.
Fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts dissolves and dissociates into calcium and C6-19-branched fatty acid ions upon contact with an aqueous medium. Therefore, the aquatic hazard potential is assessed based on the toxicity data available for calcium and C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structural analogue neodecanoic acid) and read-across to the assessment entities soluble calcium substances and neodecanoate is applied since the ions of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts determine its environmental fate and toxicity.
Acute (short-term) toxicity data: As an essential element for living organisms calcium has a very low potential for acute toxicity to freshwater as well as saltwater organisms. Regarding aquatic toxicity data for C6-19-branched fatty acids, represented by read-across to the structural analogue neodecanoic acid, data are available from GLP-conform guideline studies for three trophic levels: algae, invertebrates and fish. In sum, reported L(E)C50 values of both calcium and neodecanoate are well above 100 mg/L and corresponding OECD test limits.
Chronic (long-term) toxicity: As an essential element for living organisms, calcium has a very low potential for long-term toxicity to freshwater as well as saltwater organisms. Regarding aquatic toxicity data for C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structural analogues neodecanoic and
neoheptanoic acid), reliable data are available for invertebrates and QSAR-based estimates for daphnids as well as long-term toxicity data on freshwater fish, also supported by QSAR-based estimates. The respective NOEC/EC10 values are > 1 mg/L. Regarding algae, an EC10 or NOEC is not available for neodecanoate. However, based on the fact that the EC50 for growth rate of algae is > 100 mg/L, we may assume that it is unlikely that the EC10/NOEC < 1 mg/L. Thus, chronic aquatic toxicity of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts to algae, daphnia and fish is not expected below 1 mg/L.
Read-across
Metal carboxylates are substances consisting of a metal cation and a carboxylic acid anion. Based on the solubility of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts in water, a complete dissociation of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts resulting in calcium cations and C6-19-branched fatty acid anions may be assumed under environmental conditions. The respective dissociation is reversible, and the ratio of the salt /dissociated ions is dependent on the metal-ligand dissociation constant of the salt, the composition of the solution and its pH.
A metal-ligand complexation constant of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts could not be identified. Data for alkaline earth metals appear to be generally limited. However, alkaline earth metals tend to form complexes with ionic character as a result of their low electronegativity. Further, the ionic bonding of alkaline earth metals is typically described as resulting from electrostatic attractive forces between opposite charges, which increase with decreasing separation distance between ions. Based on an analysis by Carbonaro & Di Toro (2007) of monodentate binding of calcium to negatively-charged oxygen donor atoms, including carboxylic functional groups, monodentate ligands such as neodecanoate are not expected to bind strongly with calcium. Accordingly, protons will always out-compete calcium ions for complexation of monodentate ligands given equal activities of free calcium and hydrogen ions. The metal-ligand formation constant (log KML) of calcium withother carboxylic acids, i.e. acetic and benzoic acid, ranging from 0.2 to 0.77 (Bunting & Thong, 1969), further point to a low strength of the monodentate bond between carboxyl groups and calcium.The analysis by Carbonaro & Di Toro (2007) suggests that the following equation models monodentate binding to negatively-charged oxygen donor atoms of carboxylic functional groups:
log KML= αO* log KHL+ βO; where
KML is the metal-ligand formation constant, KHL is the corresponding proton–ligand formation constant, and αO and βO are termed the Irving–Rossotti slope and intercept, respectively. Applying the equation and parameters derived by Carbonaro & Di Toro (2007) and the pKa of neodecanoic acid of 4.69 results in:
log KML= 0.189 * 4.69 + 0.025
log KML= 0.91 (estimated calcium-neodecanoate formation constant).
Thus, it may reasonably be assumed that based on the estimated calcium-neodecanoate formation constant, the respective behaviour of the dissociated calcium cations and neodecanoate anions in the environment determine the fate of calcium neodecanoate upon dissolution with regard to (bio)degradation, bioaccumulation, partitioning resulting in a different relative distribution in environmental compartments (water, air, sediment and soil) and subsequently its ecotoxicological potential.
Thus, for the assessment of ecotoxicological effects and the environmental fate of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts, a read-across approach is applied using data for the metal moiety and the fatty acid moiety. The latter, based on the similarities in structure and physical-chemical properties, is represented by its structural analogue neodecanoic acid (C10-neo acid; CAS 26896-20-8) in accordance with the U.S. EPA HPV programme for C5-C28 neo acids (U.S. EPA, 2009, HPV Chemicals, Neoacids C5-C28 Category).
Thus, in the assessment of environmental fate and pathways of the substance fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts, information on the assessment entities calcium cations and anions of C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structural analogue neodecanoic acid) were considered. Since calcium ions and C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structural analogue neodecanoic acid) behave differently in the environment, regarding their fate and toxicity, a separate assessment of each assessment entity is performed. Please refer to the data as submitted for each individual assessment entity. For a documentation and justification of that approach, please refer to the separate document attached to section 13, namely Read Across Assessment Report for fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts.
Reference:
Carbonaro RF & Di Toro DM (2007) Linear free energy relationships for metal–ligand complexation: Monodentate binding to negatively-charged oxygen donor atoms. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71: 3958–3968.
Bunting JW & Thong KM (1969) Stability constants for some 1:1 metal-carboxylate complexes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 48, 1654.
Conclusion on classification
Aquatic toxicity studies with fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts are not available, thus aquatic toxicity is addressed with existing data on the dissociation products. Fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts dissolves and dissociates into calcium and C6-19-branched fatty acid ions upon contact with an aqueous medium. Calcium is naturally ubiquitous in the environment and essential for living organisms with a very low potential for toxicity to freshwater and saltwater organisms. Adverse effects are lacking up to and including the respective OECD/EC guidelines limit concentrations. The aquatic hazard assessment is therefore based on the most toxic moiety, i.e. C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structural analogues neodecanoic and neoheptanoic acid), and respective effect concentrations are recalculated for fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts based on the maximum C6-19-branched fatty acid content of 94.6%. Please refer to the section for the respective assessment entity.
Acute (short-term) toxicity data:
As an essential element for living organisms, calcium has a very low potential for acute toxicity to freshwater as well as saltwater organisms. Regarding aquatic toxicity data for C6-19-branched fatty acids, represented by read-across to the structural analogue neodecanoic acid, data are available from GLP-conform guideline studies for three trophic levels: algae, invertebrates and fish. In sum, reported L(E)C50 values of both calcium and neodecanoate are well above 100 mg/L and corresponding OECD test limits. Therefore, fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts does not meet classification criteria as short-term hazard to the aquatic environment under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and its subsequent adaptations.
Long-term (chronic) toxicity:
As an essential element for living organisms, calcium has a very low potential for long-term toxicity to freshwater as well as saltwater organisms. Regarding aquatic toxicity data for C6-19-branched fatty acids *or rather its structural analogues neodecanoic acid and neoheptanoic acid, reliable data are available for invertebrates and fish and QSAR-based estimates for daphnids and fish. The respective NOEC/EC10 values are > 1 mg/L. Regarding algae, an EC10 or NOEC is not available for neodecanoate. However, based on the fact that the EC50 for growth rate of algae is > 100 mg/L, we may assume that it is unlikely that the EC10/NOEC < 1 mg/L. Thus, chronic aquatic toxicity of fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts to algae, daphnia and fish is not expected below 1 mg/L.
Based on the surrogate approach (Table 4.1.0 (b) (iii)), fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts would also not meet chronic classification criteria since the EC50 for algae > 100 mg/L. Therefore, fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts does not meet classification criteria as long-term hazard to the aquatic environment under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.
In sum, based on read-across of toxicity data available for calcium and C6-19-branched fatty acids (or rather its structuaral analogues neodecanoic acid and neoheptanoic acid, fatty acids, C6-19-branched, calcium salts does not meet aquatic hazard criteria of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.
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