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Ecotoxicological information

Toxicity to birds

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Description of key information

Waiving.

Key value for chemical safety assessment

Additional information

In Annex X REACH it is suggested, that in case of long term toxicity testing to birds "any need for testing should be carefully considered taking into account the large mammalian dataset that is usually available at this tonnage level."

Furthermore, ECHA (2008) states in the "Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment Chapter R.7c" that "given that mammalian toxicity is considered in detail for human health protection, the need for additional data for birds must be considered very carefully – new tests are a last resort in the data collection process." Furthermore the substance is not bioaccumulative. Hence, secondary poisoning is of no concern.

Therefore, and because of reasons of animal welfare, no study on bird toxicity is performed.

Methyl acetate showed low ecotoxicity to other test organisms.