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- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data

Toxicological Summary
- Administrative data
- Workers - Hazard via inhalation route
- Workers - Hazard via dermal route
- Workers - Hazard for the eyes
- Additional information - workers
- General Population - Hazard via inhalation route
- General Population - Hazard via dermal route
- General Population - Hazard via oral route
- General Population - Hazard for the eyes
- Additional information - General Population
Administrative data
Workers - Hazard via inhalation route
Systemic effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
DNEL related information
Local effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
DNEL related information
Workers - Hazard via dermal route
Systemic effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- exposure based waiving
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- exposure based waiving
DNEL related information
Local effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- exposure based waiving
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- exposure based waiving
Workers - Hazard for the eyes
Local effects
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Additional information - workers
Copper slag is a complex metal containing substance. It mainly contain iron silicate and silicates of aluminum and calcium. Traces of metals exist in metal, mineral form or included in silicate phases.
The toxicity and classification is therefore related to:
- Amount of metals present (%)
- Speciation of metals
- Degree to which the metal constituents react with water / biological fluids and release soluble, potentially bio available ionic and other metal bearing species.
- Rules for classification of mixtures as defined in the CLP regulation (2009)
Classification derived based on high quality test data on skin irritation, eye irritation, acute toxicity via oral and dermal route, bacterial gene mutation test and bacterial survival test.
Results demonstrate that:
- Copper slag is not skin irritant. The absence of irritation effects furthermore excludes the possibility for corrosion, defined as serious damage of tissues throughout the skin thickness.
- Copper slag is not harmful and not toxic via oral and dermal route.
- Copper slag is not mutagenic and does not affect bacteria survival.
Classification furthermore derived based on the rules for mixtures (CLP regulation).
Data from in vitro bio-accessibility tests in biological fluids ( gastric and sweat) are further used to refine /confirm the classification.
Conclusively based on consideration of toxicity data, chemical composition, speciation and reduced bio-accessibility, copper slags do not need classification for human health hazards.
A summary of the human health classification is attached.
Detailed explanation and justification are provided in records for every endpoint
General Population - Hazard via inhalation route
Systemic effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
DNEL related information
Local effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
DNEL related information
General Population - Hazard via dermal route
Systemic effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
DNEL related information
Local effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
General Population - Hazard via oral route
Systemic effects
Long term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
Acute/short term exposure
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no-threshold effect and/or no dose-response information available
DNEL related information
General Population - Hazard for the eyes
Local effects
- Hazard assessment conclusion:
- no hazard identified
Additional information - General Population
Copper slag is a complex metal containing substance. It mainly contain iron silicate and silicates of aluminum and calcium. Traces of metals exist in metal, mineral form or included in silicate phases.
The toxicity and classification is therefore related to:
- Amount of metals present (%)
- Speciation of metals
- Degree to which the metal constituents react with water / biological fluids and release soluble, potentially bio available ionic and other metal bearing species.
- Rules for classification of mixtures as defined in the CLP regulation (2009)
Classification derived based on high quality test data on skin irritation, eye irritation, acute toxicity via oral and dermal route, bacterial gene mutation test and bacterial survival test.
Results demonstrate that:
- Copper slag is not skin irritant. The absence of irritation effects furthermore excludes the possibility for corrosion, defined as serious damage of tissues throughout the skin thickness.
- Copper slag is not harmful and not toxic via oral and dermal route.
- Copper slag is not mutagenic and does not affect bacteria survival.
Classification furthermore derived based on the rules for mixtures (CLP regulation).
Data from in vitro bio-accessibility tests in biological fluids ( gastric and sweat) are further used to refine /confirm the classification.
Conclusively based on consideration of toxicity data, chemical composition, speciation and reduced bio-accessibility, copper slags do not need classification for human health hazards.
A summary of the human health classification is attached.
Detailed explanation and justification are provided in records for every endpoint
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