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PBT assessment: overall result

PBT status:
the substance is not PBT / vPvB
Justification:

Though hydroquinone fulfils the criteria for toxic substances, the data indicate that hydroquinone is neither fulfilling the criteria for persistent and bioaccumulative (PBT-substances), nor the criteria for very persistent and very bioaccumulative substances (vPvB-substances) according to REACH directive, Annex XIII and as laid down in the TGD R.11 of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).