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Appendices 1-18 to: Report on the Health Effects of Selected Pesticide Coformulants

62     Evaluation

The database on calciumdodecylbenzenesulfonate is very limited. An evaluation of the toxicology of the substance is not possible on this basis.

The few available data show that the calciumdodecylbenzenesulfonate is readily absorbed from the gastroinstestinal tract and excreted equally through urine and faeces with no accumulation in the tissues.  

Calciumdodecylbenzenesulfonate is of low acute oral toxicity.

No further data are available on the substance.

The toxicology of calciumdodecylbenzenesulfonate is expected to be related to the anion part of the substance, the identity of the salt being of secondary importance. A larger database is available on sodiumdodecylbenzenesulfonate and on linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS) in general. Analogy considerations with LAS indicate that the critical effects of calciumdodecylbenzenesulfonate are probably skin, eye and respiratory tract irritancy. However, differences in chain length in the compounds studied may bias such structure-activity comparisons.

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