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Environmental fate & pathways

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate is susceptile to photolysis in air (half-life = 0.234 days) and water (half-life = 19 hours). Furthermore, once released into the water, hydrolysis might contribute significantly to the degradation of this substance, especially under acidic and neutral conditions (half-lives of 0.6 h and 41.6 hours respectively).

Sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate is readily biodegradable and therefore, additional tests on biodegradation in water, sediment and soil are not deemed necessary. Based on the available information, this substance is not expected to persist in the environment. The estimated Henry’s Law constant (< 6.3×10-08 Pa m3 /mol at 20 °C) shows that sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate will not evaporate from the water surface. This substance has no potential for adsorption to solid particles and based on its log Kow (<0) and estimated BCF (0.84), bioaccumulation in biota is not expected.