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Environmental fate & pathways

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Additional information

In water, sodium methanolate rapidly hydrolyses to methanol and sodium hydroxide (OECD, 2002). Therefore, the organic degradation product methanol is considered relevant for the evaluation of the endpoint biodegradation. Sodium hydroxide is not relevant for biodegradation since it is inorganic.
Methanol is considered being readily biodegradable under both, aerobic and anaerobic conditions in a wide variety of environmental media including fresh- and marine water, sediments and soils, groundwater, aquifer material and industrial wastewater.