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The fate of fatty acids, C9 -13-neo, copper salts in the environment is most accurately evaluated by separately assessing the fate of its constituents copper cations and fatty acids, C9 -13-neo anions. For the fatty acid anions, read-across to neodecanoic acid (as structural analogue of fatty acids, C6-13-neo) is applied.

 

The concept of biodegradation is not applicable to copper cations since metals are not degraded. However as a result of naturally occurring geochemical processes metal ions can get removed from the water column. Information on “changes in copper speciation, removal from the water-column and the potential of copper remobilization from sediments” are considered as equivalent to “biodegradation of organic substances.

Available data for the structural analogue neodecanoic acid indicate that it is not readily biodegradable (11% biodegradation in 28 days) based on a standard OECD test.

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