RIFM フレグランス成分安全性評価,イコサーン,CAS登録番号112-95-8
A M Api1, A Bartlett1, D Belsito2
1Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc., 1200 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite 306, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA.
まとめ
エイコサンは使用に安全で,毒性,感知性,または環境影響評価において遺伝子毒性または重大なリスクを示さない. 主要な毒性エンドポイントの安全性マージンは100を超え,安全性プロファイルが確認されています.
科学分野:
- 毒理学 毒理学 毒理学
- 環境安全 環境安全
- 化学品の安全性評価について
背景:
- エイコサンは,さまざまな産業用途を持つ長鎖アルカンです.
- 総合的な安全評価は,人間の健康と環境への潜在的な影響を理解するために不可欠です.
研究 の 目的:
- エイコサンの遺伝子毒性,再投与毒性,生殖毒性,局所呼吸器毒性,光刺激/光アレルギー性,皮膚感受性,環境安全性を評価する.
- イコサンが,現在の使用レベルにおいて,安全性に関する懸念を提起するかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- ヘニコサーン,アンデカーン,パラフィンワックスなどのアナログからの読み越しデータを,毒性のエンドポイントのために利用した.
- 染色体の構造分析に基づいて評価された光刺激/光アレルギー性.
- 毒理学的懸念の値 (TTC) を用いて局所呼吸道毒性を評価した.
- 持続性,生物蓄積,および毒性 (PBT) の基準を評価し,リスク係数 (RQ) を計算することによって環境の安全性を決定する.
主要な成果:
- エイコサンは遺伝子毒性を示さなかった.
- エクスポージャーマージン (MOE) は,再投与およびレドクロスによる生殖有毒性で100を超えました.
- 皮膚感受性に対する安全性に関する懸念は特定されなかった.
- エイコサンは染色体がないため,光刺激や光アレルギー性リスクがないことを示しています.
- 局所呼吸道への曝露はTTC以下である.
- エイコサンは持続性,生物蓄積性,および毒性 (PBT) がなく,RQsは世界の主要地域で<1です.
結論:
- エイコサンは遺伝子毒性ではなく,重複投与または生殖毒性に関して重大な安全性上の懸念はありません.
- この物質は,光刺激剤や光敏感剤ではなく,皮膚の感受性を高める危険性はありません.
- 環境リスク評価は,エイコサンはPBTではないことを確認し,現在の使用量では無視できる環境への影響を及ぼしている.
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