Registration Dossier

Data platform availability banner - registered substances factsheets

Please be aware that this old REACH registration data factsheet is no longer maintained; it remains frozen as of 19th May 2023.

The new ECHA CHEM database has been released by ECHA, and it now contains all REACH registration data. There are more details on the transition of ECHA's published data to ECHA CHEM here.

Diss Factsheets

Ecotoxicological information

Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates

Currently viewing:

Administrative data

Link to relevant study record(s)

Reference
Endpoint:
short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
Type of information:
(Q)SAR
Adequacy of study:
key study
Study period:
2005
Reliability:
2 (reliable with restrictions)
Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:
accepted calculation method
Remarks:
The value was predicted using a validated QSAR.
Justification for type of information:
Please refer to attached justification documents
Qualifier:
no guideline required
Principles of method if other than guideline:
The result is not an experimental study but rather a calculation which follows the principles in the TGD guidance and which are presented in the publication Fisk et al. (2009).
GLP compliance:
no
Analytical monitoring:
not required
Vehicle:
not specified
Test organisms (species):
Daphnia magna
Test type:
other: calculated
Water media type:
freshwater
Limit test:
no
Total exposure duration:
48 h
Remarks on exposure duration:
as indicated by OECD guidance
Reference substance (positive control):
not required
Key result
Duration:
48 h
Dose descriptor:
EC50
Effect conc.:
> 100 mg/L
Nominal / measured:
nominal
Conc. based on:
test mat.
Basis for effect:
other: QSAR
Remarks on result:
other: calculated EC50, QSAR, 48 h based on OECD guideline requirements

Predicted to be non-toxic at the limit of solubility.

Validity criteria fulfilled:
not applicable
Conclusions:
A reliable 48 h EC50 value of >100 mg/L has been calculated for the effects of the test substance towards Daphnia magna. Therefore the test substance has been predicted to be non toxic at the limit of solubility, so the EC50 is >0.1 mg/L (the solubility limit as described in section 4).

Description of key information

Short-term toxicity to invertebrates: EC50 48 h >100 mg/l (non-toxic at the limit of solubilty) (QSAR prediction) for the effects of docosan-1-ol on mobility of Daphnia magna.

Key value for chemical safety assessment

Additional information

No experimental data are available for short-term toxicity of docosan-1-ol to invertebrates.

A 48 h EC50 value of >100 mg/L has been calculated for the effects of the docosan-1-ol on invertebrates (Fisk et al., 2009). This result signifies that the test substance is expected to be non-toxic at the limit of solubility, i.e. the EC50 is >0.001 mg/l.

Discussion of trends in the Category of C6-24 linear and essentially-linear aliphatic alcohols:

Single constituent LCAAs

The data show the toxicity of the linear LCAAs to increase from an EC50 of 200 mg/L for C6 to 0.77 mg/L for C12. Effects have also been observed in tests with C13 and C14 LCAAs but at concentrations that exceeded the solubility of the alcohols. Although not explicitly identified in the test reports, physical effects (rather than true toxicity) cannot therefore be excluded from the interpretation of the results for these two LCAAs. In the Unilever (1994) study with C14 the authors have recorded that the test substance adhered to the daphnids at concentrations higher than the water solubility of 1-tetradecanol. This indicates that physical fouling is likely to have caused the effects seen at the EC50 value of 4 mg/L.

 


Multi-constituents LCAAs

The data show the multi-constituent substances containing LCAAs with carbon numbers in the ranges of C7-9 to C12-15 to exert short-term toxicity at concentrations of between 0.23 and 30 mg/L. At these concentrations it is likely that all constituents will have been fully dissolved. The short-term EC50 of the C14-15 LCAAs to aquatic invertebrate was determined to be above the limit of solubility of the substance.

For the C12-14 and C12-18 multi-constituent substances there was evidence of toxic effects in tests conducted on test media prepared as water-accommodated fractions at loading rates that exceeded the solubility of some constituents. For the C16-18 substance there was evidence of effects in test media that could have contained undissolved test material. The possibility of physical effects (rather than true toxicity) contributing to the observed effects were not discussed in the test report but cannot be excluded.

 

The data for nonanol, branched and linear, decanol branched and linear, decanol branched and undecanol branched and reaction mass of 2-methyldecan-1-ol and 2-propyloctan-1-ol and 2-ethylnonan-1-ol and 2-butylheptan-1-ol alcohols have been read-across from their linear LCAAs counterparts (C9, C10 and C11) since they are essentially linear LCAAs.

The measured data do not permit a definite toxicity cut-off to be identified for the single carbon number LCAAs or the multi-constituent substances. This is because the potential for physical effects to contribute to the results obtained for the C13 and 14 single carbon number alcohols, and the multi-constituent substances containing constituents with carbon numbers that are all >C12, cannot be excluded. However, it is reasonable to conclude from the data that are presented that it is unlikely that linear LCAAs with carbon numbers >C13 and multi-constituent LCAAs with carbon numbers all >C13 would be toxic.