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EC number: 201-143-3 | CAS number: 78-79-5
- 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
Long-term toxicity to fish
Administrative data
Link to relevant study record(s)
Description of key information
The 32 -day NOEC is 1.08 mg/L. TLM QSAR modelling was used to calculated NOELR values of isoprene towards fish. The calculated value NOELR values is 3.287 mg/L.
The lowest value was used for chemical safety assessment.
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Fresh water fish
Fresh water fish
- Effect concentration:
- 1.08 mg/L
Additional information
The long-term toxicity of isoprene to fish was determined by the OECD Toolbox on the basis of read-across from five nearest neighbours in the database on the assumption of Verhaar baseline toxicity. The OECD QSAR Toolbox was developed to increase the regulatory acceptance of (Q)SAR methods and to make (Q)SAR technology readily accessible, transparent and less demanding in terms of infrastructure costs. The OECD QSAR Toolbox was developed in cooperation with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and therefore is considered to be a reliable source of data for this endpoint.
The ECOSAR model is a reliable and appropriate QSAR model to apply to isoprene as it is based on a related chemical dataset that calculates the toxicity of neutral organic hydrocarbons. The endpoint calculated here is therefore a reasonable estimate of its baseline toxicity. A QSAR prediction was used as the key endpoint in the OECD SIDS for isoprene (2005).
For chronic toxicity to fish, no measured data for isoprene are available. This endpoint has been completed using a weight of evidence approach, including data from the OECD QSAR Toolbox, as well as QSAR results for isoprene. The OECD QSAR Toolbox reports a 768 hour NOEC of 1.08 mg/L based on growth rate, with the result read-across from five nearest neighbours to isoprene in OECD QSAR Toolbox database on the assumption of Verhaar baseline toxicity. The result reported in the OECD SIDS for isoprene is a ChV of 2.81 mg/L and the ECOSAR results for isoprene give a ChV of 1.76 mg/L. When divided by v2 (to adjust for ChV being a geometric mean of NOEC and LOEC), these ChV values correspond to long-term fish NOECs of 1.99 and 1.24 mg/L respectively.
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