High Production Volume Chemical Amine Oxides [C8–C20] Category Environmental Risk Assessment

Hans Sanderson, Caritas Tibazarwa, William Greggs, Donald J. Versteeg, Yutaka Kasai, Kathleen Stanton and Richard I. Sedlak

Risk Analysis, 2009, vol. 29, issue 6, 857-867

Abstract: An environmental assessment of amine oxides has been conducted under the OECD SIDS High Production Volume (HPV) Program via the Global International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) Amine Oxides Consortium. Amine oxides are primarily used in conjunction with surfactants in cleaning and personal care products. Given the lack of persistence or bioaccumulation, and the low likelihood of these chemicals partitioning to soil, the focus of the environmental assessment is on the aquatic environment. In the United States, the E‐FAST model is used to estimate effluent concentrations in the United States from manufacturing facilities and from municipal facilities resulting from consumer product uses. Reasonable worst‐case ratios of predicted environmental concentration (PEC) to predicted no effect concentration (PNEC) range from 0.04 to 0.003, demonstrating that these chemicals are a low risk to the environment.

Date: 2009
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