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Toxicity to reproduction

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Administrative data

Endpoint:
reproductive toxicity, other
Remarks:
Long term study
Type of information:
experimental study
Adequacy of study:
weight of evidence
Reliability:
2 (reliable with restrictions)
Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:
study well documented, meets generally accepted scientific principles, acceptable for assessment
Justification for type of information:
Data is from peer-reviewed journal

Data source

Reference
Reference Type:
publication
Title:
Long-term toxicity study of carmoisine in rats using animals exposed in utero
Author:
G. P. FORD, B. I. STEVENSON and J. G. EVANS
Year:
1987
Bibliographic source:
Fd Chem. Toxic. Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 919-925, 1987

Materials and methods

Test guideline
Qualifier:
equivalent or similar to guideline
Guideline:
other: Combined repeated dose & carcinogenicity
Principles of method if other than guideline:
Combined repeated dose & carcinogenicity Test of Carmoisine in male and female Wistar rats.
GLP compliance:
not specified
Limit test:
no

Test material

Constituent 1
Chemical structure
Reference substance name:
Disodium 4-hydroxy-3-[(4-sulphonatonaphthyl)azo]naphthalenesulphonate
EC Number:
222-657-4
EC Name:
Disodium 4-hydroxy-3-[(4-sulphonatonaphthyl)azo]naphthalenesulphonate
Cas Number:
3567-69-9
Molecular formula:
C20H14N2O7S2.2Na
IUPAC Name:
Disodium 4-hydroxy-3-[(4-sulphonatonaphthyl)azo]naphthalene sulphonate
Details on test material:
- Name of test material: Carmoisine
- Molecular formula: C20H14N2O7S2.2Na
- Molecular weight: 502.4338 g/mol
- Substance type: organic
- Physical state: No data available
- Purity 85% dye
- Impurities (identity and concentrations):
15.0 %NaCI
>0 1% subsidiary colors
Specific details on test material used for the study:
- Name of test material: Carmoisine
- Molecular formula: C20H14N2O7S2.2Na
- Molecular weight: 502.4338 g/mol
- Substance type: organic

Test animals

Species:
rat
Strain:
Wistar
Sex:
male/female
Details on test animals or test system and environmental conditions:
- Source: Olac (1976) Ltd, Bicester, Oxon
- Age at study initiation: (P) x wks; No data available. (F1) x wks
- Weight at study initiation: (P) Males: x-x g; Females: x-x g; (F1) Males: x-x g; Females: x-x g- No data available
- Fasting period before study: No data available.
- Housing: Housed six to a cage in an air-conditioned room.
- Diet (e.g. ad libitum): Spratt's Laboratory Animal Diet No. 2 (Spratt's Patent, Barking, Essex) ad libitum
- Water (e.g. ad libitum): Tap water ad libitum
- Acclimation period: No data available

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
- Temperature (°C): 20°C
- Humidity (%):40-70%
- Air changes (per hr): No data available.
- Photoperiod (hrs dark / hrs light): 14/10-hr light/dark cycle in phase with the natural light.

Administration / exposure

Route of administration:
oral: feed
Type of inhalation exposure (if applicable):
not specified
Vehicle:
other: Spratt's Laboratory Animal Diet No. 2
Details on mating procedure:
- M/F ratio per cage: 1:1
- Length of cohabitation: 13 days
- Proof of pregnancy: [vaginal plug / sperm in vaginal smear] referred to as [day 0 / day 1] of pregnancy No data available.
- After … days of unsuccessful pairing replacement of first male by another male with proven fertility. No data available.
- Further matings after two unsuccessful attempts: [no / yes (explain)] No data available.
- After successful mating each pregnant female was caged (how): The females were housed individually.
- Any other deviations from standard protocol: Sibling mating was avoided.
Analytical verification of doses or concentrations:
not specified
Duration of treatment / exposure:
For male
115 weeks
For female
110 weeks
Frequency of treatment:
Daily
Details on study schedule:
Groups of 114 (control) or 66 (treated) rats of each sex were fed diets providing 0 (control), 100, 400 or 1200 mg carmoisine/kg body weight/day for 9 wk. Within each group the animals were mated monogamously. Treatment continued uninterrupted until the young were randomly selected (where possible one/sex/litter) from each of the litters to provide groups of 90 (control) and 54 (treated) rats of each sex. These received the same treatment as their parents for up to 110 wk for females or 115 wk for males. They were observed for mortality, clinical sign, body weight, food intake and water intake, hematology, clinical chemistry, urine analysis, gross pathology and histopathology.
Doses / concentrationsopen allclose all
Dose / conc.:
0 mg/kg bw/day
Dose / conc.:
100 mg/kg bw/day
Dose / conc.:
400 mg/kg bw/day
Dose / conc.:
1 200 mg/kg bw/day
No. of animals per sex per dose:
Total no .of animals-624
P group
0mg/kg/day-114 male and 114 female rats
100 mg/kg/day- 66 male and 66 female rats
400 mg/kg/day- 66 male and 66 female rats
1200 mg/kg/day- 66 male and 66 female rats

Total no.of anomals-504
F1 generation
0mg/kg/day-90 male and 90 female rats
100 mg/kg/day- 54 male and 54female rats
400 mg/kg/day- 54 male and 54female rats
1200 mg/kg/day- 54 male and 54female rats
Control animals:
yes, concurrent vehicle
Details on study design:
not specified
Positive control:
not specified

Examinations

Parental animals: Observations and examinations:
Survival, clinical sign, body weight food intake, water intake, haematology, clinical chestry and Urine analysis were examined.
Oestrous cyclicity (parental animals):
not specified
Sperm parameters (parental animals):
not specified
Litter observations:
Survival, clinical sign, body weight food intake, water intake, haematology, clinical chestry and Urine analysis were examined.
Postmortem examinations (parental animals):
Organ wieght, gross pathology and histopathology were examined.
Postmortem examinations (offspring):
Organ wieght, gross pathology and histopathology were examined.
Statistics:
All data were subject to the appropriate statistical tests (see tables) and a probability level of 0.05 or less was taken as statistically significant.
Reproductive indices:
not specified
Offspring viability indices:
not specified

Results and discussion

Results: P0 (first parental generation)

General toxicity (P0)

Clinical signs:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
No significant change of carmoisine on the condition or behaviour of the animals, apart from coloration of the fur, urine and faeces with an intensity increasing with dose.
Dermal irritation (if dermal study):
not specified
Mortality:
no mortality observed
Description (incidence):
No effect on survival of treated rats were observed
Body weight and weight changes:
not specified
Food consumption and compound intake (if feeding study):
not specified
Food efficiency:
not specified
Water consumption and compound intake (if drinking water study):
not specified
Ophthalmological findings:
not specified
Haematological findings:
not specified
Clinical biochemistry findings:
not specified
Urinalysis findings:
not specified
Behaviour (functional findings):
not specified
Immunological findings:
not specified
Organ weight findings including organ / body weight ratios:
not specified
Histopathological findings: non-neoplastic:
not specified
Histopathological findings: neoplastic:
not specified
Other effects:
not specified

Reproductive function / performance (P0)

Reproductive function: oestrous cycle:
not specified
Reproductive function: sperm measures:
not specified
Reproductive performance:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
No effect on mating, pregnancy, lactation and weaning of reated rats as compared to control.

Effect levels (P0)

Dose descriptor:
NOAEL
Effect level:
1 200 mg/kg bw/day
Based on:
test mat.
Sex:
male/female
Basis for effect level:
clinical signs
mortality
reproductive performance
Remarks on result:
other: No effect observed

Target system / organ toxicity (P0)

Critical effects observed:
not specified
System:
other: not specified
Organ:
not specified
Treatment related:
not specified
Dose response relationship:
not specified
Relevant for humans:
not specified

Results: F1 generation

General toxicity (F1)

Clinical signs:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
Effect like coloration of the fur, urine and faeces with an intensity increasing with dose . But no significant change were observed in animals behaviour and condition in treated group compare to control.
Dermal irritation (if dermal study):
not specified
Mortality / viability:
no mortality observed
Description (incidence and severity):
No significant change were observed in the mortality in treated group compare to control.
Body weight and weight changes:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Significant change were observed in the body weights of F1 males receiving either 400 and 1200 mg carmoisine/kg/day were lower than those of the controls throughout the study.

Females receiving 1200 mg/kg/day weighed significantly less than the controls from wk 32 onwards. In both sexes the magnitude of the observed differences increased with time.
Food consumption and compound intake (if feeding study):
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Significant change was observed in the food intakes of the1200 mg carmoisine/kg/day males was observed compare to control.

Even in female 1200 mg carmoisine/kg/day groups were greater than those of the controls, but the differences in females was unrelated to dose.
Food efficiency:
not specified
Water consumption and compound intake (if drinking water study):
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
Water intakes of treated animals showed some inconsistency during the study. For the first 12 months there was a dose-related higher intake in both sexes receiving 400 or 1200 mg carmoisine /kg/day. During the second year the water intake of males receiving 1200mg/kg/day or of females receiving 400mg/ kg/day was no longer different from that of the controls.
Ophthalmological findings:
not specified
Haematological findings:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
No significant change were observed in at all dose level 100, 400 or 1200 mg /kg body weight/day of treated group compare to control.
Clinical biochemistry findings:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Lower glucose concentrations was observed in males at dose level of 1200 mg/kg/day compare to control.
While a Lower glucose concentration was observed in females at dose level of 400 and 1200 mg/kg/day compare to control.
Urinalysis findings:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Semi-quantitative analyses of urine were hindered in treated animals, particularly at the 1200 mg/kg/day, by the colour of the urine which obscured the colour reaction of the reagent test strips. Despite these limitations, which meant that some samples obtained from 1200 mg/kg/day animals were not usable, a higher proportion of samples from the from 1200 mg/kg/day females showed a high level of protein at both 18 and 24 months.
Sexual maturation:
not specified
Organ weight findings including organ / body weight ratios:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
No significant change were observed in any organ except caecum weight. The caecum was the only organ whose weight and relative weight (g/100 g body weight) showed changes associated with treatment. At 1200 and 400 mg/kg/day dose level in males both weight and relative weight of the caecum, with and without contents, were greater than the control values, although the increases were only statistically significant at the1200 mg /kg body weight/day. In females at the dose level of 1200 mg /kg body weight/day only the relative weight of the empty caecum was significantly greater than that of the controls. The changes in caecum weight were accompanied by observations at autopsy that the caecum wall was thicker in the treated animals
Gross pathological findings:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Significant thickness was observed in caecum wall at 1200 mg /kg body weight/day group of treated animals compare to control .
Histopathological findings:
no effects observed
Description (incidence and severity):
Non neoplastic- Age-related changes to be expected in rats of the strain used. Some of the changes recorded showed a positive dose-related trend together with a significantly higher incidence when individual groups were compared with the controls. These were, pupillary hyperplasia of the bladder in males and blood/fibrin cysts of the adrenal gland and internal hyperplasia / medial hypertrophy of the pancreatic blood vessels in females.

Neoplastic- The total incidences of benign or malignant tumours showed no treatment-related differences. There were no differences between the treated and control groups in the incidences of individual types of tumour apart from adrenal phaeochromocytoma which showed a statistically significant treatment-related difference in males based on four tumours in the 1200 mg/kg/day group compare to controls. A similar difference was not observed in females.
Other effects:
not specified

Developmental neurotoxicity (F1)

Behaviour (functional findings):
not specified

Developmental immunotoxicity (F1)

Developmental immunotoxicity:
not specified

Effect levels (F1)

Dose descriptor:
NOAEL
Generation:
F1
Effect level:
400 mg/kg bw/day
Based on:
test mat.
Sex:
male/female
Basis for effect level:
viability
clinical signs
mortality
body weight and weight gain
food consumption and compound intake
water consumption and compound intake
haematology
clinical biochemistry
urinalysis
gross pathology
histopathology: non-neoplastic
histopathology: neoplastic
Remarks on result:
other: No effect observed

Target system / organ toxicity (F1)

Critical effects observed:
not specified
System:
other: not specified
Organ:
not specified
Treatment related:
not specified
Dose response relationship:
not specified
Relevant for humans:
not specified

Overall reproductive toxicity

Reproductive effects observed:
not specified
Treatment related:
not specified
Relation to other toxic effects:
not specified
Dose response relationship:
not specified
Relevant for humans:
not specified

Applicant's summary and conclusion

Conclusions:
NOAEL was considered to be 1200 mg/kg bw for P generation and 400 mg/kg bw for F1 generation when Wistar male and female rats were treated with Carmoisine orally in feed for 115 weeks.
Executive summary:

In a long term toxicity study, Wistar male and female rats were treated with Carmoisine in the concentration of  0 (control), 100, 400 or 1200 mg /kg body weight/day orally in feed for 115 weeks. No significant change of carmoisine on the condition or behaviour of the animals, apart from coloration of the fur, urine and faeces with an intensity increasing with dose. No effect on survival of treated rats was observed. No effect on mating, pregnancy, lactation and weaning of P treated rats as compared to control. In addition, Effect like coloration of the fur, urine and faeces with an intensity increasing with dose in F1 pups. But no significant change was observed in animals behaviour and condition in treated group compare to control. No significant change was observed in the survival of F1 treated group compare to control. Significant change was observed in the body weights of F1 males receiving 400 and 1200 mg/kg/day were lower than those of the controls throughout the study. Females receiving 1200 mg/kg/day weighed significantly less than the controls from week 32 onwards. In both sexes the magnitude of the observed differences increased with time. Significant change was observed in the food intakes of the1200 mg /kg/day males was observed compare to control. Even in female 1200 mg/kg/day were greater than those of the controls, but the differences in females was unrelated to dose. Water intakes of treated animals showed some inconsistency during the study. For the first 12 months there was a dose-related higher intake in both sexes receiving 400 or 1200 mg /kg/day. During the second year the water intake of males receiving 1200mg/kg/day or of females receiving 400 mg/ kg/day was no longer different from that of the controls. No significant change was observed at all dose level 100, 400 or 1200 mg /kg body weight/day of treated group compare to control. Lower glucose concentrations were observed in males at dose level of 1200 mg/kg/day compare to control. While a Lower glucose concentration was observed in females at dose level of 400 and 1200 mg/kg/day compare to control. Semi-quantitative analyses of urine were hindered in treated animals, particularly at the 1200 mg/kg/day, by the colour of the urine which obscured the colour reaction of the reagent test strips. Despite these limitations, which meant that some samples obtained from 1200 mg/kg/day animals were not usable, a higher proportion of samples from the 1200 mg/kg/day females showed a high level of protein at both 18 and 24 months. No significant change was observed in any organ except caecum weight. The caecum was the only organ whose weight and relative weight (g/100 g body weight) showed changes associated with treatment. At 1200 and 400 mg/kg/day dose level in males both weight and relative weight of the caecum, with and without contents, were greater than the control values, although the increases were only statistically significant at the1200 mg /kg body weight/day. In females at the dose level of 1200 mg /kg body weight/day only the relative weight of the empty caecum was significantly greater than that of the controls. The changes in caecum weight were accompanied by observations at autopsy that the caecum wall was thicker in the treated animals. Similarly, significant thickness was observed in caecum wall at 1200 mg /kg body weight/day group of treated animals compare to control. Age-related changes to be expected in rats of the strain used. Some of the changes recorded showed a positive dose-related trend together with a significantly higher incidence when individual groups were compared with the controls. These were pupillary hyperplasia of the bladder in males and blood/fibrin cysts of the adrenal gland and internal hyperplasia / medial hypertrophy of the pancreatic blood vessels in females. The total incidences of benign or malignant tumours showed no treatment-related differences. There were no differences between the treated and control groups in the incidences of individual types of tumour apart from adrenal phaeochromocytoma which showed a statistically significant treatment-related difference in males based on four tumours in the 1200 mg/kg/day group compare to controls. A similar difference was not observed in females. Therefore, NOAEL was considered to be 1200 mg/kg bw for P generation and 400 mg/kg bw for F1 generation when Wistar male and female rats were treated with Carmoisine orally in feed for 115 weeks.